Posted on 11/19/2017 1:09:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
As the sun moves through its 11-year cycle, it experiences active and quiet periods known as the solar maximum and solar minimum.
While solar maximum can present itself in a host of different ways, a new study has found that microwaves emitted during the solar minimum have largely remained the same for more than half a century.
Astronomers in Japan have been continuously monitoring solar microwaves across four-frequencies since 1957. This began at the Toyokawa Branch of the Research Institute of Atmospherics, Nagoya University, and was later relocated in 1994 to the NAOj Nobeyama Campus. In a new study, researchers analyzed the solar microwave data collected during the telescopes’ six decade observation, revealing that the microwave intensities and spectra for solar minimum were the same every time in the last five cycles.
The solar maximums, however, varied in both intensity and spectrum from cycle to cycle.
‘Other than sunspot observations, uniform long-term observations are rare in solar astronomy,’ says lead researcher Masumi Shimojo.
‘It is very meaningful to discover a trend extending beyond a single solar cycle. This is an important step in understanding the creation and amplification of solar magnetic fields, which generate sunspots and other solar activity.’
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Yep - the Gulf Coast might become the new Tennessee as far as climate goes....:-)
In 1968 one of the best selling books was Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich
“The Population bomb,” wherein he warned of a coming deadly Ice Age.
His hypothesis was the coming ice age would find the earth unable to support the rising population, in food and clean water terms.
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