The energetics of sun-weather relationships: magnetospheric processes.
Abstract
The paper examines possible ways in which the magnetosphere could be involved in the associations between solar activity and meteorological phenomena. It is assumed that the magnetosphere must act as an active or passive intermedium between the solar wind and the lower atmosphere. Estimates are obtained for the characteristic powers and energies involved in various magnetospheric processes, such as the interaction of the solar wind with the geomagnetic field, magnetic storms, particle injection into the auroral oval, solar proton bombardment of the polar caps, and the incidence of galactic cosmic rays on the upper atmosphere. These processes are correlated with atmospheric circulation, stratospheric warmings, and vorticity enhancements at the 300-mbar level.
- Publication:
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Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0021-9169(76)90107-0
- Bibcode:
- 1976JATP...38..685W
- Keywords:
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- Energy Transfer;
- Magnetospheric Instability;
- Meteorological Parameters;
- Solar Activity Effects;
- Electric Fields;
- Incident Radiation;
- Kinetic Energy;
- Magnetic Storms;
- Solar Cosmic Rays;
- Solar Wind;
- Stratospheric Warming;
- Troposphere;
- Vorticity