The Maunder Minimum And The Variable Sun-earth ConnectionWorld Scientific, 29 gru 2003 - 296 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. |
Spis treści
1 A Sun Most Pure and Most Lucid | 1 |
2 Background of the Maunder Minimum | 11 |
Europe Asia North America As Dated from c AD 1620AD 1650 | 25 |
Europe Asia North America As Dated from c AD 1650AD 1720 | 41 |
5 Surveying the Maunder Minimum | 73 |
Towards Understanding Solar Variability and SunClimate Connections ... | 85 |
7 Maunders Early Life and Associations | 97 |
Resolving the Fifty Years Outstanding Difficulty | 111 |
11 A Particle Theory for the SunEarth Connection | 159 |
12 Our Knowledge of the Sun and Its Variability Today | 174 |
A Perspective of Past Changes on the Present | 188 |
14 The Maunder Minimum and Modern Theories of the Suns Cyclical Machinery | 216 |
Cycles of the Sun and Their Tie to Earth | 236 |
16 The Maunders and Their Final Story | 247 |
Index of Sources | 251 |
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Tree Rings Moisture and the Missing Sunspot Cycles | 129 |
The BAA and Astronomy for All | 146 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-earth Connection Willie Soon,Steven H. Yaskell Ograniczony podgląd - 2003 |
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