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Solar minimum is the regular period of least solar activity in the Sun's 11-year solar cycle. During solar minimum, sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes, and often does not occur for days at a time. On average, the solar cycle takes about 11 years to go from one solar minimum to the next, with duration observed varying from 9 to 14 years.
The Homeric Minimum is a persistent and deep [1] grand solar minimum between about 800 and 600 BC. Cosmogenic beryllium-10 deposits in varves in a German lake show a sharp increase "2,759 ± 39 varve years before present", [2] [3] while carbon-14 is high starting around 830 BC. [4]
An example is the Meeus smoothing formula, [7] with related solar cycles characteristics available in this STCE news item. [ 8 ] The start of solar cycle 25 was declared by SIDC on September 15, 2020 as being in December 2019. [ 9 ]
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Solar irradiance varies systematically over the cycle, [70] both in total irradiance and in its relative components (UV vs visible and other frequencies). The solar luminosity is an estimated 0.07 percent brighter during the mid-cycle solar maximum than the terminal solar minimum.
A new trend for 2024 was diversification of these purchases to include not just wind and solar but also nuclear. Electric vehicle sales reached 1.5 million in 2024 , growing by 6.5%.
Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number of 1.8. [ 2 ]
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