The Maunder minimum was once thought to be linked to the Little Ice Age (LIA), a cool period in some parts of the Northern ...

Applying Spörer's law, the researchers determined that these observations occurred at the end of the solar cycle, just before the commencement of the well-documented Maunder Minimum—a period of ...

The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward ...