Possible satellite perspective effects on the reported correlations between solar activity and clouds

Details Possible satellite perspective effects on the reported correlations between solar activity and clouds Possible satellite perspective effects on the reported correlations between solar activity and clouds

Feb 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3203802p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 3, CiteID L03802

Physics

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Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud Physics And Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Cloud/Radiation Interaction, Global Change: Climate Variability (1635, 3305, 3309, 4215, 4513), Global Change: Solar Variability (7537), Interplanetary Physics: Cosmic Rays

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Recently some correlations between low cloud cover and solar activity have been reported in the literature. In this paper we show how the flux of GCR is found to correlate positively with the low clouds and negatively with higher clouds, supporting previous theoretical predictions linking atmospheric ionization by cosmic rays and cloud cover at different altitudes. All these correlations are however only marginally significant and the only strongly significant (negative) correlation is found between low and higher cloud layers. Thus, there is strong evidence that the solar-like variability in low cloud may be artificially induced by the satellite observing perspective.

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