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Solar Forcing of Changes in Atmospheric Circulation, Earth's Rotation and Climate

October 2008
The Open Atmospheric Science Journal 2(1):181-184

DOI:10.2174/1874282300802010181

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University of Naples Federico II

Cross analysis of available historical series of solar wind turbulence, atmospheric circulation, Earth's rotation and sea surface temperature, when smoothed from the secular trend and periods shorter than 23 years, allowed a cascade climatological model to be set up that integrates the Sun-atmosphere-Earth system as a simple unit and ties solar corpus-cular output to sea surface temperature through atmospheric circulation and the Earth's rotation. An increase in solar cor-puscular activity causes a deceleration of zonal atmospheric circulation which, like a torque, causes a deceleration of the Earth's rotation that, in turn, causes a decrease in sea surface temperature. Application of this holistic model allows us to predict a gradual decline in global warming starting from the current decade.

Time plot of yearly values of geomagnetic activity aa.

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Time plot of yearly values of length of day LOD. d) Sea surface temperature SST (°C) provided by the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (interval: 1850–2007) as anomalies from the period with the best coverage (1961–1990) [7,8]. The coverage is much denser over the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern Hemisphere, hence the analysis here has been confined to the Northern Hemisphere. The yearly data of SST, reported in Fig. (4), are available from the web site: http://www.cru.uea. ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/.

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Time plot of yearly values of sea surface temperature SST.

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