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High correlations between variations in monthly averages of solar activity and total atmospheric ozone
Author(s) -
Blackshear W. T.,
Tolson R. H.
Publication year - 1978
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/gl005i011p00921
Subject(s) - atmospheric sciences , ozone , environmental science , flux (metallurgy) , variation (astronomy) , sunspot number , sunspot , climatology , meteorology , solar cycle , physics , geology , chemistry , astrophysics , solar wind , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , magnetic field
Estimates of the ozone total columnar content, derived from Nimbus IV IRIS data, have been analyzed to estimate monthly averages of the total global atmospheric ozone. Over a 9‐month interval, the variation in this monthly average is approximately an order of magnitude greater than its associated uncertainty, and has characteristics in common with variations in the 10.7 cm solar flux, the Zurich sunspot number, and the total solar Lyman α flux. The highest correlation, 0.94, exists between the variation in the total Lyman α flux and the variation in the estimated total atmospheric.ozone.