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Data format for the COMPOSITE_d15.PLT

  COL   FMT    DESCRIPTION
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 1- 4   I4     Year
 5- 6   I2     Month
 7- 8   I2     Day
 9-10   2X     Blank
11-18   F8.3   Total Solar Irradiance (TSI)

CREATED: Nov 19 1999
VERSION: 15
NOTE:    A plot of the composite is shown on the homepage of PMOD/WRC: 
         http://www.pmodwrc.ch/
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The description of the composite can be found in:
C.Fr\"ohlich and Judith Lean, 1998, "Total Solar Irradiance Variations",
in: F.L.Deubner et al., Eds., "New Eyes to see inside the Sun and Stars", 
Proceedings IAU Symposium 185, Kyoto, August 1997, Kluwer Academic Publ., 
Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 89-102.
C.Fr\"ohlich and Judith Lean, 1998, "The Suns Total Irradiance: Cycles, 
Trends and Related Climate Change Uncertainties since 1978", 
Geophys.Res.Let., 25, pp.  4377-4380.
This dataset is freely available with one restriction:
If you use the data or some product based on the data in a published 
paper refer to one of the above publications and acknowlege receipt of the 
dataset (mention version used) from PMOD/WRC, Davos, Switzerland,
and acknowledge unpublished data from the VIRGO Team.