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ISBN Number: 9789812382757
Author: Soon, Willie Wei-hock
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Author: Soon, Willie Wei-Hock
Author: Yaskell, Steven H.
Author: Wei-Hock Soon, Willie
Subject: Astronomy, Solar System
Subject: Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject: Earth Sciences, Meteorology & Climatology
Copyright: 2004
Publication Date: January 2004
Cover Type: Paperback
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 296
Book Size: 9.68x6.46x.81 in. 1.38 lbs.
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.<P>E Walter and Annie S D Maunder's work helped in understanding our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar period starting in the mid-seventeenth century lasted approximately seventy years, one that E Walter Maunder worked hard to make us understand: the Maunder Minimum of c 1620-1720 (which was posthumously named for him).<P>With ongoing concern over global warming, and the continuing failure to identify root causes driving earth's climatic changes, the Maunders' story outlines how our cyclical sun can alter climate. The book goes on to view the sun-earth connection in terms of geomagnetic variation and climatic change; contemporary views on the sun's operating mechanisms are explored, and the effects these have on the earth over long and short time scales are pondered.<P>If not a call to widen earth's climate research to include the sun, this book strives to illustrate how solar causes and effects can influence earth's climate in ways we must understand in order to enhance solar system research and our well-being. Book News Annotation:
The husband-wife team E. Walter (1851-1928) and Annie S. D. Maunder
contributed greatly to the understanding of the sun's chemical,
electrical, electromagnetic, and plasma properties; and investigated
links between the sun's behavior and Earth's climate. In particular,
E. Walter identified a period of low sunspot activity and odd weather
about 1620-1720, which was named for him posthumously. Soon (Harvard-
Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) and Yaskell describe their work
and its significance for science and politics today.
Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
