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The Maunder Minimum and the variable sun-earth connection /

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 propert...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soon, Willie
Otros Autores: Yaskell, Steven H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A sun most pure and most lucid
  • 2. Background of the Maunder Minimum
  • 3. The Maunder Minimum: Europe, Asia, North America (as dated from c. A.D. 1620-A.D. 1650)
  • 4. The Maunder Minimum: Europe, Asia, North America (as dated from c. A.D. 1650-A.D. 1720)
  • 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
  • 12. Our knowledge of the sun and its variability today
  • 13. Earth's atmosphere and its story: a perspective of past changes on the present
  • 14. The Maunder Minimum and modern theories of the sun's cyclical machinery
  • 15. Summary: cycles of the sun and their tie to Earth
  • 16. The Maunders and their final story.