Surface warming by the solar cycle as revealed by the composite mean difference projection

2007/07/01 by C. D. Camp, Ka Kit Tung · 5 citations
Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #Climate variability and models #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #Environmental science #Surface (topology) #Atmospheric sciences #Global warming #Solar cycle #Projection (relational algebra) #Composite number #Climatology #Meteorology #Mathematics #Climate change #Physics #Geology #Plasma #Geometry #Solar wind #Algorithm

paper · pdf · doi:10.1029/2007gl030207

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Abstract

By projecting surface temperature data (1959–2004) onto the spatial structure obtained objectively from the composite mean difference between solar max and solar min years, we obtain a global warming signal of almost 0.2°K attributable to the 11‐year solar cycle. The statistical significance of such a globally coherent solar response at the surface is established for the first time.

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