Sentences with phrase «fewer sunspots»

You had very few sunspots [markings on the face of the sun that indicate heightened solar activity] between 1650 and 1715, and for example, in Sweden in 1696, it caused the harvest to go wrong.

Long slow cycles with fewer sunspots result in cooling.

Fewer sunspots meant fewer faculae, so less heat from the Sun.

Solar cycle 24 has had far fewer sunspots than was predicted, however, there no reason to think that this will continue.

In the late 17th to mid-18th centuries it had very few sunspots — fewer even than during the run of recent cold winters in Europe, which other UK scientists have linked to a relatively quiet sun.

«Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots.

Earth has experienced extended periods of cooling due to more frequent explosive volcanic eruptions and periods of few sunspots — such as during the «Little Ice Age» which lasted roughly from 1300 to the 1800s.

For the last few years, the sun has been in a relatively quiet phase: there have been few sunspots, which are the markers of a powerful sun.

In the 17th century, the solar cycle appears to have stopped entirely for several decades; very few sunspots were observed during the period.

At a typical solar minimum, few sunspots are visible, and occasionally none at all can be seen.

The only people who have tried to claim a link are Wille Soon and Sallie Baliunas, who claimed in 2003 that «When there are more sunspots, the total solar output increases, and when there are fewer sunspots, it decreases.»

In 1894 the English astronomer E. Walter Maunder pointed out that very few sunspots were observed between 1645 and 1715, a period now known as the Maunder minimum.

The Virginia - based Vencore Weather recently reported that «[n] ot since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots.»

So why would there have been less radiation in the late 1600s when there were very few sunspots?

Furthermore, the inactive (Few sunspots) Sun stops blocking cloud - making cosmic Rays.

As the process continues and magnetic flux strength of the sunspot group declines, the lifetime of a sunspot group (of the few sunspot groups that do form) has decreased to where we are now at the point that a sunspot group's lifetime is for a number of cases only a few days.

If the Sun has fewer sunspots and no flares, what difference does that make here on Earth?

When there were few sunspots, during periods of low sunspot activity, cosmic rays could enter the earth's atmosphere and affect the earth's climate.

The 20th century seems to have been a period where sunspots were more frequent, especially from 1950 to 2000, while the most recent cycles in the 21st century have had fewer sunspots.

It has been increasingly established that low solar activity (fewer sunspots) and increased cloud -LSB-...]