Links between Solar Activity and Atmospheric Circulation
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Upper Atmosphere".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 26246
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Interests: solar paleoastrophysics; solar activity; solar–climatic relationship; paleoclimatology
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate has a long history as an important determinant of the social and economic development of humankind. That is why changes to the Earth’s climate, particularly the global warming of the 20th century, have already transferred from the field of pure science into the international political agenda. The Sun is the ultimate source of energy for the terrestrial atmosphere. Solar activity is a set of non-stationary phenomena and processes in the Sun’s atmosphere connected to changes in solar magnetic fields. Studies of the relationship between solar activity and atmospheric processes are of great importance to understand the causes of the Earth’s climate variability and to predict its future evolution. Recently, a large number of experimental data have been obtained testifying to the reality of solar–atmospheric links. The possibility of solar contribution to atmospheric processes is currently actively debated. However, the mechanism of solar effects on the atmosphere is likely complicated and can include a set of physical agents, such as cosmic ray flux, visible and ultraviolet solar irradiance, and interplanetary magnetic fields. Moreover, the connection between solar activity and the atmospheric processes likely changes with time: it may weaken and even disappear depending on the time interval. That is why clarification of the physical mechanism of solar influence on atmospheric processes requires further systematic efforts of many researchers.
Dr. Maxim G. Ogurtsov
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- solar activity
- cosmic rays
- atmospheric circulation
- climatology
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