Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
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EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #9925
Physics
Scientific paper
Over the past eight years there have been a number of reports of a correlation between solar activity and Earth's global cloud properties. This has raised the possibility of a new mechanism(s) linking the sun to climate. Solar activity can influence regions in the atmosphere where clouds form through changes in the solar irradiance spectrum and changes in the solar wind shielding of cosmic rays that are responsible for atmospheric ionisation. However, currently no conclusive evidence exists to explain how these solar induced changes might affect cloud properties, and the existence of a solar-cloud link relies on the observed correlations. Here we review the available cloud observations, which span almost 20 years for satellite-derived observations and 50 years for surface based observations. The evidence for a solar link in the various cloud datasets will provide a constraint on the requirements of a possible solar-cloud mechanism.
Marsh Nigel
Svensmark Henrik
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