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Maunder, n. Astron.|ˈmɔːndə(r)|
[The name of E. Walter Maunder (1851–1928), English astronomer.]
Maunder minimum, the period of extremely low sunspot activity between about 1645 and 1715, which coincided with the Little Ice Age in the northern hemisphere.
1975Nature 27 Feb. 686/1 A period of almost complete absence of sunspots which occurred from about 1645 to 1715. This ‘Maunder minimum’ was discovered in the early years of the century. 1980Ibid. 31 Jan. 427/2 Nineteen different fang chih contribute 21 previously unknown naked-eye sunspot records from the seventeenth century, of which six fall into the period claimed by Eddy as the time of the Maunder Minimum. 1992S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 521/1 An extreme example of sunspot influence may be a persistent period of abnormally low temperatures in Europe coincident with a near absence of sunspots in the Maunder Minimum. |