Long Term Time Variability of Cosmic Rays and Possible Relevance to the Development of Life on Earth |
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Authors: | A D Erlykin A W Wolfendale |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham, UK;(2) P N Lebedev Institute, Moscow, Russia |
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Abstract: | The well-known 11-year cycle in low cloud cover amount for Solar Cycle Number 22 and the trend with time for Solar Cycle Number
23 are interpreted as being due to similar changes, but of opposite phase, in the mean global surface temperature of the Earth.
An analysis of cloud amounts in two higher altitude bands shows that they, and the surface temperature, are roughly in phase
with each other. The suggested mechanism to explain this result is that a warming of the Earth’s surface causes low clouds
to rise and to be reclassified in the next upper category. The energetics of the process are shown to be satisfactory for
this to be the correct explanation. |
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