The sun's rotation and perturbations of geopotential height and temperature fields in the stratosphere

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Dec 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981soph...74..385e&link_type=abstract

(ESA and European Physical Society, ESLAB Symposium on Physics of Solar Variations, 14th, Scheveningen, Netherlands, Sept. 16-19

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Atmospheric Circulation, Geopotential Height, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Rotation, Stratosphere, Temperature Distribution, Climate, Periodic Variations, Planetary Waves, Solar Temperature, Wave Propagation, Zonal Harmonics

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The morphology of a solar activity effect apparently connected with the Sun's rotation and showing up in 25-day and 13.6-day oscillations of stratospheric geopotential and temperature fields is analysed in this study. The used data cover the height range between roughly 20 and 30 km and a timespan from July 1965 to October 1971. Most prominent responses are found for zonal harmonic wave number 1 at the oscillation period of 25 days (solar rotation period modulated by seasonal changes) and for the zonally averaged meteorological quantities at the oscillation period of 13.6 days. Additional statistically significant effects show up in the zonal harmonics with wave number 1 and 3 at half the solar rotation period and in the zonal means with periodicities near 25-27 days. The results point towards a modulation of the quasistationary stratospheric planetary wave with a positive geopotential anomaly around roughly 180° longitude by solar activity changes. The direct physical mechanisms of this Sun-climate relationship are not yet clear, but it can be concluded that atmospheric dynamics is an important factor for its morphology and that downward propagation of such effects seems possible and should be investigated in future studies.

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