Solar Variability and Terrestrial Weather.

Abstract

The past four years have seen a growing interest in possible relationships between terrestrial weather and solar or solar wind variability. Most of the work in sunweather (and climate) studies have sought correlations on three time scales: (1) climate changes over hundreds to thousands of years, related to longer term variations in the solar putput, (2) climate changes correlated with the 22-year solar cycle, and (3) weather variations on the scale of a few days, in response to transient solar events. While it has not been conclusively shown that there is a sun-weather connection on any of these time scales, in each case there exists enough supporting evidence to suggest that further study is warranted. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA070962

Entities

People

  • Philip Scherrer

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Electricity
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Cosmic Rays
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Meteorological Phenomena
  • Meteorology
  • Models
  • Observation
  • Physics
  • Solar Activity
  • Solar Cycle
  • Solar Wind
  • Sun
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.
  • Strategic Security Studies