1913 is recordholder with a staggering 311 days, while 2008 ranks fourth in years with
a spotless sun (265 days).
«
Spotless Sun» prompts scientists to fear «dramatic turn for the worse» — May 31, 2008 — Excerpt: ith the debate focused on a warming Earth, the icy consequences of a cooler future have not been considered You probably haven't heard much of Solar Cycle 24, the current cycle that our sun has entered, and I hope you don't.
We know you are a combative man Leif, and we wait with baited breath and overcoats to see how right or wrong you and David Archibald are about the degree of cooling
a spotless sun will induce.
«Anomalously
spotless sun, weird super deep solar magnetic cycle minimum» as I know what the weird super deep solar magnetic cycle minimum will lead to.
Not exact matches
The last time the
sun produced a similar string of
spotless days was May of 2010, almost 7 years ago.
Tom Arne Moldenaes of Groetfjord, Norway, recorded this eruption («like green lava from a volcano,» he says) on Jan. 5th when the face of the
sun was completely
spotless:
The
sun is currently in a
spotless state, the solar large scale magnetic field is dissipating.
Their songs, including the hit Light & Day / Reach for the
Sun, have been featured in television appearances and film soundtracks, such as American Idol, Scrubs, Austin City Limits, Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind, Thumbsucker, and Murderball.
There is nothing fluttery about the quiescent,
spotless,
sun.
That makes the
sun blanker this year than in any year since 1954, when it was
spotless for 241 days...
Austin, August 16, 2014 — A rare
spotless day on the
sun on July 17 - 18, 2014 triggered public speculation that an already stunted Cycle 24 was nearly over.
An even longer period in recent history occurred during the SC22 - SC23 transition, from 13 September 1996 till 24 October 1996, when the
Sun was
spotless for 42 consecutive days.
As Earth descends into an 80 - year,
sun -
spotless Dalton or Maunder Minimum reinforced by a confluence of deep - ocean magmatism with long - term cyclical reversals, climate - change alarmists will have much to answer for.
The solar magnetic cycle is rapidly changing, it appears the
sun will be
spotless based on observations by the end of this year.
William Astley says: July 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm The solar magnetic cycle is rapidly changing, it appears the
sun will be
spotless based on observations by the end of this year.
Leif Svalgaard says: July 21, 2013 at 3:55 pm William Astley says: July 21, 2013 at 12:51 pm The solar magnetic cycle is rapidly changing, it appears the
sun will be
spotless based on observations by the end of this year.
To soak up the
sun as efficiently as possible, solar panels need to be kept near
spotless.
We assert that the amount of magnetic energy that remains present (de Wijn et al. 2009) at the surface of a
spotless (i.e. quiet)
Sun is the main driver of solar irradiance variability on centennial time scales.
Observations of the
Sun with relatively high spatial resolution show that the present quiet
Sun is still highly inhomogeneous, even though it appears to be
spotless.