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    Solar minimum is the regular period of least solar activity in the Sun's 11-year solar cycle. During solar minimum, sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes...
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  • The Spörer Minimum is a hypothesized 90-year span of low solar activity, from about 1460 until 1550, which was identified and named by John A. Eddy in...
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    of minimum activity to a period of a maximum activity back to a period of minimum activity. The magnetic field of the Sun flips during each solar cycle...
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    temperatures. The reduced solar activity may have contributed to the climatic cooling, although the cooling began before the solar minimum and its primary cause...
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    The Dalton Minimum was a period of low sunspot count, representing low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from...
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    7310 BC, 7520 BC, 8220 BC, 9170 BC. Solar wind Solar variation Solar minimum List of solar cycles – table of solar cycles NASA C. D. Camp & K. K. Tung...
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    as being 1.361 kilowatts per square meter (kW/m2) at solar minimum (the time in the 11-year solar cycle when the number of sunspots is minimal) and approximately...
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    Modern Gleissberg Minimum. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel predicted in December 2019 that solar cycle 25 will be similar to solar cycle 24, with the...
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    composites are evident, but the most significant is the solar minimum-to-minimum trends during solar cycles 21-23. ACRIM found an increase of +0.037%/decade...
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    solar minimum, few sunspots are visible, and occasionally none can be seen at all. Those that do appear are at high solar latitudes. As the solar cycle...
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    that emission of the slow solar wind occurred at latitudes up to 30–35° during the solar minimum (the period of lowest solar activity), then expanded toward...
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    NP-2009-1-066-GSFC, U.S., 2009, 311 pp, ISBN 0160838088. Solar variation Climate change Maunder Minimum Spörer Minimum Arctowski Medal, National Academy of Sciences...
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  • The Homeric Minimum is a grand solar minimum that started about 2,800 years ago (ca. 800 BC) and lasted around 200 years. It appears to coincide with,...
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    Sunspot (redirect from Solar pore)
    recognizable Solar phenomena and despite the fact that they are mostly visible in the solar photosphere they usually affect the entire solar atmosphere...
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    Muscheler (2022). "Cosmogenic radionuclides reveal an extreme solar particle storm near a solar minimum 9125 years BP". Nat. Commun. 13 (214): 214. Bibcode:2022NatCo...
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  • field. At a typical solar minimum, few or no sunspots are visible. Those that do appear are at high solar latitudes. As the solar cycle progresses towards...
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    the center to about 0.2 of the solar radius (139,000 km; 86,000 mi). It is the hottest part of the Sun and of the Solar System. It has a density of 150...
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    recent solar cycles, down to a level which had not been seen since cycles 12 to 15 (1878-1923). Prior to the minimum between the end of Solar Cycle 23...
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    corroborated by tree rings. It unexpectedly appears to have occurred near a Solar minimum and was as strong as, or probably even slightly stronger than the famous...
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    released five solo albums: Mayfly (2005), The Returning Sun (2007), Solar Minimum (2009), The Horse's Mouth (2013) and Lockdown (2020). His Cinema for...
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    In the United States, the minimum wage is set by U.S. labor law and a range of state and local laws. The first federal minimum wage was instituted in the...
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  • is at a minimum and is equal to latitude minus solar declination angle. This is the basis by which ancient mariners navigated the oceans. Solar zenith...
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  • (astronomy) Sunspot, where most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate Wolf number, counts sunspots Maunder Minimum, the period roughly spanning...
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  • and East Asia in late afternoon and early evening. Even in times of solar minimum, when F2 is rarely available, 10 meters still has some long distance...
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  • the Maunder minimum. It was proposed that one cycle might have been lost in the late 18th century, but this remains not fully confirmed. Solar cycles can...
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  • it will pass. These things always do. The solar cycle is now heading down towards its expected solar minimum around 2006, while the current El Nino is...
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    either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include...
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    observed during the solar cycle was 180.3 (November 2001), and the starting minimum was 11.2. During the minimum transit from solar cycle 23 to 24, there...
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    the strongest cooling and contraction occurring in that layer during solar minimum. The most recent contraction in 2008–2009 was the largest such since...
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    after solar minimum, the part of the 11-year solar cycle when solar activity is lowest. The lowest-energy particles come from the slow and fast solar wind...
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