Premium
Surface warming by the solar cycle as revealed by the composite mean difference projection
Author(s) -
Camp Charles D.,
Tung Ka Kit
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/2007gl030207
Subject(s) - environmental science , surface (topology) , atmospheric sciences , global warming , solar cycle , projection (relational algebra) , composite number , climatology , meteorology , mathematics , climate change , physics , geology , plasma , geometry , solar wind , algorithm , oceanography , quantum mechanics
By projecting surface temperature data (1959–2004) onto the spatial structure obtained objectively from the composite mean difference between solar max and solar min years, we obtain a global warming signal of almost 0.2°K attributable to the 11‐year solar cycle. The statistical significance of such a globally coherent solar response at the surface is established for the first time.