Atmospheric temperature response to solar cycle UV flux variations

A radiative-convective climate model was used to explore the response of the mean global vertical temperature structure to a variation in the solar UV flux over the solar cycle. The model predicted a cooling of the troposphere and a warming of the stratosphere from solar minimum to solar maximum. The response of the atmospheric temperature to solar UV variations was found to be moderated by a concomitant change in the mean global stratospheric ozone content.