Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2016
This review is concerned mainly with the solar modulation of galactic cosmic rays and the progress that has been made since the Tenth International Conference on Cosmic Rays (Calgary, June 1967), My aim is to set out some of the advances in the basic theories; to indicate why certain disagreements between convection-diffusion theory and observations (noted in Webber’s invited review at Calgary) are to be expected; and to indicate some of the currently emerging areas of interest.