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Caption: Figure 4.
Top panel: annual solar wind B values (1845–2022; Owens et al. 2016) with a ∼2.8 nT floor indicated. Bottom panel: composite annually averaged diurnal geomagnetic variation rY showing the return to a ∼33 nT floor at each solar minimum from 1840 to 2014 (Svalgaard 2016).
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