Effect of solar variability on the Earth’s climate patterns
Abstract
We discuss effects of solar variability on the Earth's large-scale climate patterns. These patterns are naturally excited as deviations (anomalies) from the mean state of the Earth's atmosphere-ocean system. We consider in detail an example of such a pattern, the North Annular Mode (NAM), a climate anomaly with two states corresponding to higher pressure at high latitudes with a band of lower pressure at lower latitudes and the other way round. We discuss a mechanism by which solar variability can influence this pattern and formulate an updated general conjecture of how external influences on Earth's dynamics can affect climate patterns.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.076
- Bibcode:
- 2007AdSpR..40.1146R