The Maunder Minimum: And The Variable Sun-earth Connection
by Willie Wei-Hock Soon /
2003 / English / PDF
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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 Maunder Minimum of c 1620-1720 (which was
posthumously named for him).With ongoing concern over global
warming, and the continuing failure to identify root causes driving
earth's climatic changes, the Maunders' story outlines how our
cyclical sun can alter climate. The book goes on to view the
sun-earth connection in terms of geomagnetic variation and climatic
change; contemporary views on the sun's operating mechanisms are
explored, and the effects these have on the earth over long and
short time scales are pondered.If not a call to widen earth's
climate research to include the sun, this book strives to
illustrate how solar causes and effects can influence earth's
climate in ways we must understand in order to enhance solar system
research and our well-being.
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 Maunder Minimum of c 1620-1720 (which was
posthumously named for him).With ongoing concern over global
warming, and the continuing failure to identify root causes driving
earth's climatic changes, the Maunders' story outlines how our
cyclical sun can alter climate. The book goes on to view the
sun-earth connection in terms of geomagnetic variation and climatic
change; contemporary views on the sun's operating mechanisms are
explored, and the effects these have on the earth over long and
short time scales are pondered.If not a call to widen earth's
climate research to include the sun, this book strives to
illustrate how solar causes and effects can influence earth's
climate in ways we must understand in order to enhance solar system
research and our well-being.