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Interdisciplinary studies of solar activity and climate change in China.
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The solar flux is considered the fundamental energy source of earth’s climate system. The driving mechanisms behind astronomy and earth motion factors, as well as corresponding amplifying processes within the earth’s climate system, are not fully understood.
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We propose the key mechanism of solar wind and electric-microphysical effects on climate (Zhou et al., 2014, ASR; Xiao and Li, 2016, JMR), and construct a physical model depicting the interdecadal response of the air-sea system to solar activity (Huo, W., and Z. Xiao., 2016, 2017, AOSL). And we found fingerprints of the solar cycle in the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM), and it was first identified that the large-scale rainband in a special period was evidently modulated by the 11-yr sunspot cycle (Zhao and Wang, 2014, JC).
Dr Liang Zhao
LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Interdisciplinary studies of solar activity and climate change, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, May 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2017.1321951.
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A study on impacts of astronomical and earthly motility factors on climate change
References Huo, W., and Z. Xiao. 2016. The impact of solar activity on the 2015/16 El Niño event. Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett. 9: 428-435, doi: 10.1080/16742834.2016.1231567. Tinsley, B. A., and L. Zhou. 2015. Parameterization of aerosol scavenging due to atmospheric ionization. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 120: 8389-8410, doi:10.1002/2014JD023016. Wang, J., and L. Zhao. 2012. Statistical tests for a correlation between decadal variation in June precipitation in China and sunspot number. J. Geophys. Res. 117, D23117, doi: 10.1029/2012JD018074. Xiao, Z. and D. Li. 2016. Solar wind: A possible factor driving the interannual sea surface temperature tripolar mode over North Atlantic. J. Meteor. Res. 30: 312-327, doi: 10.1007/s13351-016-5087-1. Xiao, Z., Y., Liao, and C. Li. 2016. Possible impact of solar activity on the convection dipole over the tropical pacific ocean. J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys. 140: 94-107, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2016.02.008. Zhao, L., J. Wang, and H. Zhao. 2012. Solar cycle signature in decadal variability of monsoon precipitation in China. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 90: 1-9, doi: 10.2151/jmsj.2012-101. Zhao, L., and J. Wang. 2014. Robust response of the East Asian monsoon rainband to solar variability. J. Climate 21: 3043-3051, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00482.1. Zhao, L., J. Wang, H. Liu, and Z. Xiao. 2017. Amplification of the solar signal in the summer monsoon rainband in China by synergistic actions of different dynamical responses. J. Meteor. Res., 31: 61-72, doi: 10.1007/s13351-016-6046-6. Zhou, L., B. Tinsley, and J. Huang. 2014. Effects on winter circulation of short and long term solar wind changes. J. Adv. Space Res. 54: 2478-2490, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2013.09.017.
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