Physics
Scientific paper
May 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84.2415q&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, May 20, 1979, p. 2415-2420.
Physics
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Atmospheric Temperature, Solar Activity Effects, Solar Cycles, Solar Terrestrial Interactions, Stratosphere, Summer, Sunspots, Ultraviolet Radiation
Scientific paper
Summertime rocketsonde temperature data for 1965-1977 at seven sites, 8 deg S-64 deg N, were adjusted to reduce previously uncorrected instrumental errors. The data were then carefully processed to yield yearly average temperature departures from the average temperatures for 1965-1977. At two levels, 35 and 50 km, the yearly departures as well as 3-year moving averages (with 1-2-1 weighting) were compared to the mean annual sunspot number, both for individual stations and for the combined station data. The smoothed temperature departures for the combined data show a correlation of +0.89 with sunspot numbers at both altitudes but with greater temperature range (4.5 C) at 35 km. Except for two special circumstances, correlations at individual stations (smoothed data) range from +0.72 to +0.94; the corresponding amount of temperature change from near-solar maximum (1969) to near-solar minimum (1975) varies among the stations from -3 C to -6 C. The observed temperature variations during solar cycle 20 are well within recent model calculations that are based on observed fluctuations in solar ultraviolet radiation.
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