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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782282603321

Autore

Soon Willie

Titolo

The Maunder Minimum and the variable sun-earth connection [[electronic resource] /] / Willie Wei-Hock Soon, Steven H. Yaskell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

River Edge, N.J., : World Scientific, c2003

ISBN

981-4486-65-5

1-281-94788-1

9786611947880

981-279-686-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YaskellSteven H

Disciplina

523.74

Soggetti

Sunspots

Climatic changes

Astronomers - Great Britain

Sun

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents               ; Foreword               ; Acknowledgements                       ; 1 A Sun Most Pure and Most Lucid                                       ; Solar Blemishes and Imputed Effects on Climate: Scientific Solar Study Begins                                                                                    ; 2 Background of the Maunder Minimum                                          ; 3 The Maunder Minimum: Europe Asia North America (As Dated from c. A.D. 1620-A.D. 1650)

Western Europe and the Mediterranean Basin                                                 China and the Far East Asian Region                                          ; North American Region                            ; 4 The Maunder Minimum: Europe Asia North America (As Dated from c. A.D. 1650-A.D. 1720)                                                                                              ; North Atlantic/Western Europe and Mediterranean Basin/North African Region

China and the Far East Asian Region                                          North American and North Atlantic Region                                               ; 5 Surveying the Maunder Minimum                                      ; 6 Maunder's Immediate Predecessors in Delineating Solar Structure and Behavior: Towards Understanding Solar Variability and Sun-Climate Connections



7 Maunder's Early Life and Associations                                              8 Maunder and the Connection of Sunspot Behavior and Geomagnetism: Resolving ""the Fifty Years' Outstanding Difficulty""                                                                                                                             ; 9 Studying Aurora... the Scandinavian and American Connection: Tree Rings Moisture and the Missing Sunspot Cycles

10 The Family Maunder: The B.A.A. and Astronomy for All                                                              11 A Particle Theory for the Sun-Earth Connection                                                        ; Modern Geomagnetic Storm Theory and Delineating the Magnetosphere                                                                        ; 12 Our Knowledge of the Sun and Its Variability Today

Solar Magnetic Field and Variable Solar Outputs Concerning Historical Solar Minima

Sommario/riassunto

This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our sun's most stubborn secrets.  E Walter and Annie S D Maunder's work helped in understanding our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar period starting in the mid-seventeenth century lasted approximately seventy years, one that E Walter Maunder worked hard to make us understand: the Ma