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On a Plausible Physical Mechanism Linking the Maunder Minimum to the Little Ice Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes  and
Andre Mangeney
Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes
Affiliation:
CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon-Cedex, France
Andre Mangeney
Affiliation:
CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 92195 Meudon-Cedex, France
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To understand better the Earth's climate, we need to know precisely how much radiation the Sun generates. We present here a simple physical mechanism describing the convective processes at the time of low sunspot activity. According to this model, the kinetic energy increased during the Maunder Minimum, causing a decrease of the solar radiation that was sufficient to produce a little Ice Age.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , 1992 , pp. 263 - 270
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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