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EISN info

The estimated international sunspot number (EISN) is a daily value obtained by a simple average over available sunspot counts from prompt stations in the SILSO network.
The raw values from each station are scaled using their mean annual k personal coefficient over the last elapsed year. Therefore, compared to the monthly international sunspot number (produced on the first day of each month), the accuracy of the EISN is lower because the calculation rests on a smaller number of stations and the k scaling coefficient is only an approximation of the true k coefficient of the month.
The EISN is computed every few minutes and thus evolves continuously as new observations from our worldwide network are entered into our database. 
The EISN thus gives a dynamical preview of the final sunspot number but is an ephemeral product. It should not be archived for long-term use. At the end of each month, those values are dropped and replaced by the provisional sunspot numbers from the full calculation for the corresponding month. 
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TXT 
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Filename: EISN_current.txt
Format: plain ASCII text

Contents:
Column 1: Gregorian Year 
Column 2: Gregorian Month
Column 3: Gregorian Day
Column 4: Decimal date
Column 5: Estimated Sunspot Number
Column 6: Estimated Standard Deviation
Column 7: Number of Stations calculated
Column 8: Number of Stations available

Line format [character position]:
 - [1-4]   Year
 - [6-8]   Month
 - [9-10]   Day
 - [12-19] Decimal date
 - [21-23] Estimated Sunspot Number
 - [25-29] Estimated Standard Deviation
 - [31-33] Number of Stations calculated
 - [35-37] Number of Stations available 
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CSV
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Filename: EISN_current.csv
Format: Comma Separated values (adapted for import e.g. in MS Excel)

Contents:
Column 1: Gregorian Year 
Column 2: Gregorian Month
Column 3: Gregorian Day
Column 4: Decimal date
Column 5: Estimated Sunspot Number
Column 6: Estimated Standard Deviation
Column 7: Number of Stations calculated
Column 8: Number of Stations available
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