minima
Americannoun
noun
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The researchers are now planning a metagenomic study that extends the time series to cover periods of even more intense sea ice minima.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2023
Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.
From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023
She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2022
If the conditions which now prevail at times of sunspot minima were magnified, they would give the mild conditions of inter-glacial epochs and similar periods.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth
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