Dalton Minimum [SEP] named after
Dalton Minimum
The Dalton Minimum was a period of low sunspot count, representing low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830 or 1796 to 1820, corresponding to the period solar cycle 4 to solar cycle 7.
Temperature.
Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Dalton Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. During that period, there was a variation of temperature of about 1 °C in Germany.
The cause
school house in the primary sector of Ackworth School, is called Dalton.
- Dalton Township in southern Ontario was named after him. In 2001 the name was lost when the township was absorbed into the City of Kawartha Lakes but in 2002 the Dalton name was affixed to a new park, Dalton Digby Wildlands Provincial Park.
See also.
- Atomic mass unit (dalton) – the atomic mass unit
- Dalton Minimum – a period of low solar activity
- Daltonism
- Democritus
- Pneumatic chemistry