Is it possible to have too much information? Or can what seem like too much actually be too little?
And how about trying to figure out whether it's relevant or not?
I was thinking about the solar flux measurement from the other day - and after a few minutes found a site which has more flux readings than I knew what do to with. There's ALL sorts of formats - corrected and uncorrected, daily and monthly and annual means - loads of info indeed.
But let's just go with the last 30 annual entries.
1977 - 869See any cyclic trending there?
1978 - 1435
1979 - 1917
1980 - 1984
1981 - 2026
1982 - 1751
1983 - 1198
1984 - 1011
1985 - 747
1986 - 740
1987 - 853
1988 - 1141
1989 - 2134
1990 - 1898
1991 - 2080
1992 - 1502
1993 - 1096
1994 - 856
1995 - 770
1996 - 720
1997 - 809
1998 - 1179
1999 - 1535
2000 - 1787
2001 - 1811
2002 - 1794
2003 - 1284
2004 - 1065
2005 - 917
2006 - 800
2007 - 731
I think the next couple of years will be cool - then it'll start to warm a bit...
Originally posted 2-3-08
J.