CLIMATE CHANGE IN CENTRAL EUROPE IN CORRELATION WITH CHANGES OF SUN ACTIVITIES

• Main Author: Horst Borchert
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Air pollution; Climate change; Global temperature; Global radiation; Cloudiness; Cosmic radiation; Sunspots; Neutron flux; 22nd Sunspot period; North Atlantic Oscillation; Growing Season; Stratospheric Ozone; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.559.179; http://www.umad.de/infos/climate_change_2006/Borchert-Climate-Change-2006.pdf

Continuous measurements of air pollution and meteorological components in Central Europe within the last 30 years showed between 1987 and 1991 very strong changes of their values. As a consequence SO2-based winter-smog alert-systems were cancelled and Ozone-based summer-smog alert-systems were introduced. These changes of air pollution were accompanied with a strong increasing jump of the long time trend of global radiation of nearly 2 mW/cm2 (yearly averages) and of ground-near temperature of about 1,2 °C in Central Europe during this short time interval. These climatic changes were accompanied with the reduction of cloudiness which was in correlation with the reduction of cosmic rays (neutrons) especially strong within the 22nd sunspot period. Sun observations of NASA showed since this time stronger increase of eruptions of protons transporting solar winds, which were reducing cosmic radiation by magnetic deflections. This effect caused reductions of cloudiness partly till about 30 %. Therefore this "Climate Jump " with its increasing ground near temperature, causing the above mentioned changes, is sun made. Moreover the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) showed correlation with neutron flux, which stables the assumption, that there is a causal connection between sunspot controlled cosmic rays and cloudiness: The found correlations between these components give a causal chain which leads to the knowledge, that increasing sun activity causes the increase of global temperature and as a consequence also the observed prolongation of the growing season and further more increasing UVB-radiation, what means finally climate change in Central Europe,.