Solar variability and its effects on climate

Author(s)

• Pap, Judit M.
• Fox, Peter A.
• Frohlich, Claus

Bibliographic Information

Solar variability and its effects on climate

Judit M. Pap and Peter Fox, editors ; Claus Frohlich ... [et al.], contributing editors

（Geophysical monograph, 141）

American Geophysical Union, c2004

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 141. This monograph presents a state-of-the-art description of the most recent results on solar variability and its possible influence on the Earth's climate and atmosphere. Our primary goal in doing so is to review solar energy flux variations (both electromagnetic and particle) and understand their relations to solar magnetic field changes and global effects, their impact on different atmospheric layers, and-as a collaboration of scientists working on solar-terrestrial physics-to note unresolved questions on an important interdisciplinary area. One of the highest-level questions facing science today is whether the Earth's atmosphere and climate system changes in a way that we can understand and predict. The Earth's climate is the result of a complex and incompletely understood system of external inputs and interacting parts. Climate change can occur on various time scales as a consequence of natural variability-including solar variability-or anthropogenic causes, or both. The Sun's variability in the form of sunspots and related magnetic activity has been the subject of careful study ever since the earliest telescopic observations. High precision photometric observations of solar-type stars clearly show that year-to-year brightness variations connected with magnetic activity are a widespread phenomenon among such stars. As our nearest star, the Sun is the only star where we can observe and identify a variety of structures and processes which lead to variations in the solar energy output, in both radiative and particle fluxes. Studying event tiny changes in solar energy flux variations may teach us about internal processes taking place in the Sun's convective zone and below.

Table of Contents

Preface Judit M. Pap, Peter Fox! Claus Frohlich, Hugh S. Hudson, Jeffrey Kuhn, John McCormack, Gerald North, William Sprigg, and S. I Wu vii Section 1. Fundamentals 1 Section 1. Fundamentals of the Solar Interior and Atmosphere Jeffrey R. Kuhn and John McCormack 3 Long-Term Solar Variability: Evolutionary Time Scales Richard R. Radick 5 Solar Variability Caused by Structural Changes of the Convection Zone S. Sofia and L. H. Li 15 Theoretical Models of Solar Magnetic Variability Manfred Schussler and Dieter Schmitt 33 Global Magnetic-Field Reversal in the Corona Boon Chye Low and Mei Zhang 51 Fundamentals of the Earth1s Atmosphere and Climate Joanna D. Haigh 65 Section 2. Solar Energy Flux Variations 83 Section 2. Solar Energy Flux Variations Hugh S. Hudson 85 Mechanisms of Solar Irradiance Variations J. R. Kuhn and J. D. Armstrong 87 Solar Irradiance Variability Claus Frohlich 97 Measurement of the Solar Ultraviolet Irradiance Gary Rottman, Linton Floyd, and Rodney Viereck 111 Solar Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray Irradiance Variations Tom Woods, Loren W Acton, Scott Bailey, Frank Eparvier, Howard Garcia, Darrell judge, judith Lean, John I Mariska, Don McMullin, Gerhard Schmidtke, Stanley C. Solomon, W Kent Tobiska, Harry R. Warren, and Rodney Viereck 127 Solar Activity and Irradiance Variations Peter Fox 141 Solar Irradiance Reference Spectra Gerard Thuillier, Linton Floyd, Thomas N. Woods, Richard Cebula, Ernest Hilsenrath, Michel Herse, and Dietrich Labs 171 Solar Energetic Particle Variations David Lario and George M. Simnett 195 Section 3. Solar Variability and Climate 217 Section 3. Solar Variability and Climate John P. McCormack and Gerald R. North 21 9 Long-Term Solar Variability and Climate Change Based on Radionuclide Data From Ice Cores Raiumund Muscheler, jiirg Beer, and Peter W Kubik 221 Solar and Climatic Implications of the Centennial and Millennial Periodicities in Atmospheric L114C Variations Paul E. Damon and Alexei N. Peristykh 237 Detecting the ll-year Solar Cycle in the Surface Temperature Field G. R. North, Q. WU, and M. J. Stevens 251 Has the Sun Changed Climate? Modeling the Effect of Solar Variability on Climate Michael E. Schlesinger and Natalia G. Andronova 261 Effects of Solar UV Variability on the Stratosphere Lon L. Hood 283 The Effect of Solar Proton Events on Ozone and Other Constituents Charles H. Jackman and Richard D. McPeters 305 Atmospheric Ionization and Clouds as Links Between Solar Activity and Climate Brian A. Tinsley and Fangqun Yu 321 Impact of Solar EUV, XUV, and X-Ray Variations on Earth1s Atmosphere Tim Fuller-Rowell, Stan Solomon, Ray Roble, and Rodney Viereck 341 Section 4. Science Requirements and Required Future Measurements 355 Science Requirements and Required Future Measurements William Sprigg and Judit M. Pap 357

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Details

• NCID: BA68328290
• ISBN:
  • 0875904068
• LCCN: 2003066285
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 366 p.
• Size: 28 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC883.2.S6
  • DC22 : 523.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Solar oscillations
  • LCSH : Climatic changes -- Effect of solar activity on
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00442691