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Figure 1: Fractional change in solar spectral irradiance between sunspot maximum and sunspot minimum. Solid line shows measured values, dash-dot line shows estimates. Dashed line shows fractional change in total irradiance between peaks of solar cycles 21 and 22 (from data in Lean [1991].