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New evidence for effects of variable solar corpuscular emission on the weather
Author(s) -
Roberts Walter Orr,
Olson Roger H.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
reviews of geophysics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 8.087
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1944-9208
pISSN - 8755-1209
DOI - 10.1029/rg011i003p00731
Subject(s) - environmental science , troposphere , atmospheric sciences , cirrus , lag , climatology , meteorology , geology , physics , computer network , computer science
New evidence supports some earlier findings of connections between solar activity and weather that involve streams of solar corpuscular emission. The time lag between the arrival of the solar streams and their first lower stratospheric or tropospheric response is about three days, and the effects appear to be most pronounced in winter. No fully plausible physical explanation is known, but some speculations are advanced regarding a possible heating mechanism for the upper troposphere that results from aurora‐induced cirrus clouds over the relatively warm Gulf of Alaska.