The 11-year solar cycle, the Sun's rotation, and the middle stratosphere in winter. Part II: Response of planetary waves

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Dec 2001

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Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 63, Issue 18, p. 1931-1939.

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The effect of the 11-year solar cycle on the response of planetary wavenumbers 1 and 2 at 10 and 30hPa in winter to solar activity oscillations on the time scale of the Sun's rotation (27.2day) is discussed in terms of statistical spectral analysis. The three oscillations studied are the 27.2d (period of the Sun's rotation), 25.3d (periodicity caused by modulation of the 27.2d stratospheric response by annual atmospheric variation), and 54.4d (doubled period of the solar rotation). A significant effect of the 11-year solar cycle is found for the 54.4d periodicity in planetary wavenumber 1, and for the 27.2 and 25.3d periodicities in planetary wavenumber 2. The effect of the 11-year solar cycle is expressed in the evident differences between the amplitudes of responses of planetary waves at maximum and minimum of the solar cycle: the amplitudes are much larger at high than at low solar activity. The 11-year modulation of planetary wave activity is most pronounced at mid-latitudes, mainly at 40-/60°N, where the observed variability of planetary waves is large. The results obtained are in good agreement with results of the recent modeling study by Shindell et al. (Science 284 /(1999) 305).

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