Cosmic Rays and Other Space Weather Factors Influenced on the Earth's Climate
Abstract
We consider possible effects of cosmic rays and some other space factors on the Earth's climate change. It is well known that the system of internal and external factors formatting the climate is very unstable; decreasing planetary temperature leads to an increase of snow surface, and decreasing of the total solar energy input into the system decreases the planetary temperature even more, etc. From this it follows that even energetically small factors acted long time may have a big influence on climate change. In our opinion, the most important of these factors are cosmic rays (CR) and space dust through their influence on formation of clouds, and thus, on climate. Are important also some rarely phenomena as impacts of asteroids and nearby supernova explosions.
- Publication:
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22nd ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research
- Pub Date:
- September 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015ESASP.730..547D