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Nature Research, Nature Geoscience, 3(9), p. 206-209, 2016

DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2640

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High solar cycle spectral variations inconsistent with stratospheric ozone observations

Journal article published in 2016 by W. T. Ball ORCID, J. D. Haigh ORCID, E. V. Rozanov, A. Kuchar, T. Sukhodolov, F. Tummon, A. V. Shapiro, W. Schmutz ORCID
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Abstract

Some of the natural variability in climate is understood to come from changes in the Sun. A key route whereby the Sun may influence surface climate is initiated in the tropical stratosphere by the absorption of solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation by ozone, leading to a modification of the temperature and wind structures and consequently to the surface through changes in wave propagation and circulation 1–4. While changes in total, spectrally-integrated, solar irradiance lead to small variations in global mean surface temperature, the 'top-down' UV effect preferentially influences on regional scales at mid-to-high latitudes with, in particular, a solar signal noted in the North Atlantic Oscillation 5, 6 (NAO). The am-1