• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.135-142
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• 2006

The extension of sunspot number series and auroral observations backward in time is of considerable interest for dynamo theory, solar activity and climate research. It was known that the Maunder minimum corresponded to a unusual cold so called little ice age in Europe and the appearance of sunspot had a close relation to the occurrence of aurora. Therefore we have examined ancient records of sunspots and aurorae with indirect solar proxies during this period and have studied for the features and peculiarities of solar activity with the relation of the climate variation.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.101-106
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• 2013

The length of solar cycle 23 has been prolonged up to about 13 years. Many studies have speculated that the solar cycle 23/24 minimum will indicate the onset of a grand minimum of solar activity, such as the Maunder Minimum. We check the trends of solar (sunspot number, solar magnetic fields, total solar irradiance, solar radio flux, and frequency of solar X-ray flare), interplanetary (interplanetary magnetic field, solar wind and galactic cosmic ray intensity), and geomagnetic (Ap index) parameters (SIG parameters) during solar cycles 21-24. Most SIG parameters during the period of the solar cycle 23/24 minimum have remarkably low values. Since the 1970s, the space environment has been monitored by ground observatories and satellites. Such prevalently low values of SIG parameters have never been seen. We suggest that these unprecedented conditions of SIG parameters originate from the weakened solar magnetic fields. Meanwhile, the deep 23/24 solar cycle minimum might be the portent of a grand minimum in which the global mean temperature of the lower atmosphere is as low as in the period of Dalton or Maunder minimum.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.22-22
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• 2004

세계 역사학계의 연구에 따르면, 17세기에는 가뭄, 홍수, 이상 저온 현상 등의 자연재해로 말미암아 전염병과 기근이 유행하였고, 이에 따라 임진왜란과 병자호란과 같은 전쟁이 많이 발생하고 유럽의 프랑스 혁명과 동아시아의 명청 교체와 같은 커다란 사회 변동이 촉발되었다는 17세기 일반 위기설이 있다. 또한 천문학계에서는 17세기초에 발명된 천체 망원경으로 태양의 흑점을 관측하기 시작하였으나 뜻밖에 당시에는 흑점이 별로 없었음이 밝혀져 있고, 이것을 Maunder's minimum이라고 부른다. (중략)

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.94.2-94.2
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• 2012

흑점과 오로라의 역사적 기록은 단편적이고 관측 빈도에 의존하는 문제도 있지만 과거 태양활동의 실제 모습을 보여주는 중요한 자료이다. 또한 지구 대기에 유입된 cosmic ray에 의해 만들어지는 14C이나 10Be 그리고 18O와 같은 동위원소들이 나무 테나 polar ice 그리고 바다의 퇴적물 등에 축적되어 나타나는 Proxy data와 함께 과거 태양의 활동뿐만 아니라 지구의 자기장이나 기후 변화 등을 연구하는데 중요한 지표로 사용된다. 최근 태양의 활동과 지구 기후 변화의 관계에 대해 특별히 많은 관심이 집중되고 있으며 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 이 연구는 우리 역사서에 실린 흑점과 오로라의 역사적 기록 및 태양의 proxy data를 함께 비교하여 지난 1000년간 태양활동에서 나타난 특징들, 즉 흑점의 출현과 오로라 발생사이의 밀접한 관계 및 태양활동의 장단기 주기변화 그리고 Maunder Minimum과 같은 최대 극소기 때 보이는 기후 변화와 태양활동의 특징 등에 대해 논의해 보고자 한다.

• Atmosphere
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.381-386
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• 2012

The monthly number of days with rain or snow in Seoul extends backward to 1626 from the present. The number of rain and snow days are from the ancient records and combined with the modern precipitation records from 1907 to the present. There are two distinct and abrupt changes in the time series, which allow us to divide the entire period into three sub-periods of CR-I, CR-II, and MR. For each sub-period, we calculated the basic statistics and the associated distributions. The analysis proves Seoul, which may comprise East Asia when considering the lengthy period of dry condition, had dry climate for the Maunder Minimum when Europe experienced cold climate. We also note relationships between the rain days and sunspot numbers in various frequency bands.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.spc1
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• pp.75-81
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• 2003

Changes in the earth's climate depend on changes in the net sunlight reaching us. The net depends on the sun's output and earth's reflectance, or albedo. Here we develop the limits on the changes in the sun's output in historical times based on the physics of the origin of solar cycle changes. Many have suggested that the sun's output could have been $0.5\%$ less during the Maunder minimum, whereas the variation over the solar cycle is only about $0.1\%$. The frequencies of solar oscillations (f- and p-modes) evolve through the solar cycle, and provide the most exact measure of the cycle-dependent changes in the sun. But precisely what are they probing? The changes in the sun's output, structure and oscillation frequencies are driven by some combination of changes in the magnetic field, thermal structure and velocity field. It has been unclear what is the precise combination of the three. One way or another, this thorny issue rests on an understanding of the response of the solar structure to increased magnetic field, but this is complicated. Thus, we do not understand the origin of the sun's irradiance increase with increasing magnetic activity. Until recently, it seemed that an unphysically large magnetic field change was required to account for the frequency evolution during the cycle. However, the problem seems to have been solved (Dziembowski, Goode & Schou 2001) using f-mode data on size variations of the sun. From this and the work of Dziembowski & Goode (2003), we suggest that in historical times the sun couldn't be much dimmer than it is at activity minimum.