Computer Science
Scientific paper
Aug 1990
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990nascp3086..301l&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Climate Impact of Solar Variability p 301-308 (SEE N91-12456 03-92)
Computer Science
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Atmospheric Radiation, Earth Radiation Budget, Energy Budgets, Irradiance, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Cycles, Solar Radiation, Sunspot Cycle, Sunspots, Variability, Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, Magnetic Variations, Monitors, Nimbus 7 Satellite, Solar Magnetic Field, Solar Maximum Mission, Spaceborne Experiments
Scientific paper
Long-term variability in the total solar irradiance has been observed in the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) solar monitor measurements. The monitors have been used to measure the irradiance from the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA-9 and NOAA-10 spacecraft platforms since October 25, 1984, January 23, 1985, and October 22, 1986, respectively. Before September 1986, the ERBS irradiance values were found to be decreasing -0.03 percent per year. This period was marked by decreasing solar magnetic activity. Between September 1986 and mid-1989, the irradiance values increased approximately 0.1 percent. The latter period was marked by increasing solar activity which was associated with the initiations of the sunspot cycle number 22 and of a new 22-year Hale solar magnetic cycle. Therefore, long-term solar-irradiance variability appears to be correlated directly with solar activity. The maximum smoothed sunspot number occurred during September 1989, according to the Sunspot Index Data Center. Therefore, the recent irradiance increasing trend should disappear during early 1990 and change into a decreasing trend if the observed irradiance variability is correlated more so with the 11-year sunspot cycle than the 22-year Hale cycle. The ERBE irradiance values are presented and compared with sunspot activity for the 1984 to 1989 period. The ERBE values are compared with those available from the Nimbus-7 and Solar Maximum Mission spacecraft experiments.
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