The Antarctic climate anomaly and galactic cosmic rays

Details The Antarctic climate anomaly and galactic cosmic rays The Antarctic climate anomaly and galactic cosmic rays

2006-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0612145v1

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Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics

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It has been proposed that galactic cosmic rays may influence the Earth's climate by affecting cloud formation. If changes in cloudiness play a part in climate change, their effect changes sign in Antarctica. Satellite data from the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) are here used to calculate the changes in surface temperatures at all latitudes, due to small percentage changes in cloudiness. The results match the observed contrasts in temperature changes, globally and in Antarctica. Evidently clouds do not just respond passively to climate changes but take an active part in the forcing, in accordance with changes in the solar magnetic field that vary the cosmic-ray flux.

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