Climate Change - Sun

This page presents notes on scientific published articles related to Sun.

Article: "Tropical Origins for Recent North Atlantic Climate Change." North Atlantic climate change since 1950 is linked to warming of tropical sea surface temperatures. Oceans may be responding to solar forcing, as shown in data since 1000 AD. Oceans may also be responding to changes in atmosphere since 1950 due to human activities. Source: Science, Volume 292, Number 5514. Date: 2001 April 6

Article: "Earth's Response to a Variable Sun." Recent investigations suggest there is influence of solar variability on global climate. Solar irradiance varies over eleven-year cycle. Source: Science, Volume 292, Number 5515. Date: 2001 April 13

Article: "Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands." A significant component of century-scale variability in Yucatan droughts is explained by solar forcing. Source: Science, Volume 292, Number 5520. Date: 2001 May 18

Article: "Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene." Earth's climate system is highly sensitive to extremely weak perturbations in the Sun's energy output, on decadal, centennial, and millennial time scales. Source: Science, Volume 294, Number 5549. Date: 2001 December 7

Article: "Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum." During 1680-1780 global average temperature dropped about 0.3 to 0.4 degrees C. Regional temperature changes over continents were much larger, about -1 to -2 degrees C. Relatively small solar forcing may play significant role in century-scale Northern Hemisphere winter climate change. Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period may have been influenced by long term solar variations. Source: Science, Volume 294, Number 5549. Date: 2001 December 7

Article: "Variations in solar luminosity and their effect on the Earth's climate." Total solar irradiance fluctuations measured by satellite over past 30 years are too small to have contributed appreciably to accelerated global warming. Source: Nature, Volume 443, Number 7108. Date: 2006 September 14

Article: "The Heartbeat of the Oligocene Climate System." Record of period 23-34 million years before present reveals cycles of 96,000-, 127,000-, 405,000-, and 1.2 million-year lengths, affecting global carbon cycle and periodicity of glaciations. 405,000 year cycle is amplified by long residency time of carbon in oceans. Cycles may be driven by expansion and contraction of biosphere productivity in response to changes in solar insolation. Source: Science, Volume 314, Number 5807. Date: 2006 December 22

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