A modern Maunder Minimum would not stave off global warming. (30th July 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schultz, Colin
• Is Part Of: Eos. Volume 94:Number 31(2013)
• Page Start: 276
• Page End: 276
• Publication Date: 2013-07-30
• Subjects: solar variability -- Maunder Minimum -- grand solar minimum -- Sun's effects on Earth's climate; Geophysics -- Periodicals; 551
• DOI: 10.1002/2013EO310008
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0096-3941

Abstract

Abstract : Roughly every 11 years, the Sun's activity swings, a peak‐to‐peak oscillation in the presence of sunspots on the solar surface. From around 1645 to 1715, however, researchers think that this largely reliable trend in solar activity stalled. Now known as the Maunder Minimum, the period saw not just a prolonged dearth of sunspot activity but also a likely reduction in the output of energy from the Sun. Researchers estimate that the Maunder Minimum could have caused a reduction in solar irradiance of around 0.01% to 0.25%, a shift that contributed to a drop of globally averaged surface air temperature of a few tenths of a degree.