The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum", is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.
A "Manunder Object" could be a sunspot occurring during the Maunder Minimum. The Maunder Minimum is the name given to the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 by John A. Eddy in a landmark 1976 paper published in Science titled "The Maunder Minimum", when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time. Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomer Edward W. Maunder (1851-1928) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.
a sunspot minimum (also known as maunder minimum) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 when sunspots exceedingly became rare as noted by solar observers of the time.
We're not sure why, but when there are very few sunspots during the 11-year "sunspot cycle", or when that cycle slows down, we experience colder than usual weather here on Earth. We've only been tracking sunspots for about 400 years; before then, nobody knew to look for them, or were able to. The sunspot cycle which began last year is Cycle 24. There have been two extended periods of few or no sunspots; one was the Maunder Minimum, from 1645 to 1715, and the Dalton Minimum, from 1790 to 1830. The Maunder Minimum coincides with a period known as the "Little Ice Age", and during the Dalton Minimum the recorded temperatures were perhaps 2-3 degrees below normal. Periods of increased sunspot activities appear to be associated with slightly higher than normal temperatures.
Maunder MinimumA period of unusually low sunspot activity taken from visual accounts of the number of sunspots observed on the solar disk. Of interest is that the sun has 11 and 22 year solar activity cycles and this period was a deviation from this frequency pattern. This 11 year variation of solar energy reaching the earth has been sited to effect a tropospheric temperature variation in the order of .5 to 1 of a degree. The Maunder Minimum of sustain low solar activity has been sited as a possible trigger for the 'Mini Ice Age' cross Europe and North America.Paraphrased from:http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/sun/sun_climate.html
maximum: 36 degrees C minimum: -123 degrees C
The Maunder Minimum was created in 1976.
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The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum", is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.
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A "Manunder Object" could be a sunspot occurring during the Maunder Minimum. The Maunder Minimum is the name given to the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 by John A. Eddy in a landmark 1976 paper published in Science titled "The Maunder Minimum", when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time. Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomer Edward W. Maunder (1851-1928) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.
Maunder Minimum
a sunspot minimum (also known as maunder minimum) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 when sunspots exceedingly became rare as noted by solar observers of the time.
The mechanisms behind the lack of sunspots in the late 16 hundreds to the early 17 hundreds (the Maunder Minimum) is debated. Among the effects on the Earth was colder weather for extended periods of time (the canals in the Netherlands froze solid each winter for decades), this has only happened occasionally during the last century.
Samuel Maunder died in 1849.
Samuel Maunder was born in 1790.
Maria Maunder was born in 1972.