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Possible traces of solar activity effect on the surface air temperature of mid-latitudes

Possible traces of solar activity effect on the surface air temperature of mid-latitudes. A. Kilcik a , A. O zg uc b , J. P. Rozelot c a Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey

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Possible traces of solar activity effect on the surface air temperature of mid-latitudes

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  1. Possible traces of solar activity effect on the surface air temperature of mid-latitudes A. Kilcika, A. Ozgucb, J.P. Rozelotc aDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, Akdeniz University, 07058 Antalya, Turkey bKandilli Observatory and E.R.I., Bogazici University, Cengelkoy, 34684 Istanbul, Turkey cUniversité de Nice Sophia Antipolis-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur CERGA, Av. Copernic, 06130 GRASSE, France 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  2. Goals • To understand the existence of solar activity effects on the surface air temperature of mid-latitudes. • To find the correlation between the surface air temperature of mid-latitudesand solar flare index, if any. • To find the periodicities of the air temperature of mid-latitudesrelated with the solar activity. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  3. Studied area on Earth 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  4. DATA Monthly surface air temperature data of mid latitudes and monthly solar flare index data sets are used as climate parameter and solar activity indicator, respectively. Temperature data set of Turkeyis taken from Turkish State Meteorological Service. The temperature and altitude data sets out of Turkey are taken from web-site of North Eurasia Climate Centre, (NEACC) http://neacc.meteoinfo.ru.Volcanic activity data is taken from Earth System Research Laboratory web page http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/about/climate.html 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  5. What is Flare Index? The quantitative flare index is FI = i t, where i represents the intensity scale of importance of a flare in Hα and t the duration in Hα (in minutes) of the flare. The daily sums of the index for the total surface are divided by the total time of observation of that day. Because the time coverage of flare observations is not always complete during a day, it is corrected by dividing by the total time of observations of that day to place the daily sum of the flare index on a common 24-hour period. Calculated values are available for general use in anonymous ftp servers of our observatory and NGDC. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  6. Values of i Used for the Determination of FI Importance i SF, SN, SB 0.5 1F, 1N 1.0 1B 1.5 2F, 2N 2.0 2B 2.5 3F, 3N, 4F 3.0 3B, 4N 3.5 4B 4.0 ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/STP/SOLAR_DATA/SOLAR_FLARES/INDEX/ http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/astronomy/23cyc.html 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  7. The data set covers 25 - 50 degree longitude interval including Turkey and European part of Russia We  limited the altitude with 428 meters. The main selection criterion of the stations is the monthly data continuity for the investigated time periods. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  8. To obtain latitude dependencies of sun climate relation all the temperature data are divided four latitudinal intervals. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  9. FI and the mean surface temperature according to the latitudes 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  10. Correlation coefficients of the entire and cyclic yearly mean data sets. Significant coefficents are given in bold face type. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  11. (e) 60-70 (d) 50-60 (c) 40-50 (b) 30-40 (a) FI Comparison of the temperature anomalies of four sub-regions with solar flare index anomalies. Dashed vertical lines mark the solar activity cycle maxima. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  12. In order to compare the spectral characteristics of the flare index to the spectral characteristics of surface air temperature we used multi taper method (MTM). Data frequency range was selected from 0.005 to 0.07 (14 - 200 months) and 0.005 to 0.08 (12.5 - 200 months) for temperature and FI data sets respectively. Our significance tests are carried out with respect to red noise, since the temperature records, like most climatic and other geophysical time series, have larger power at lower frequencies. All harmonic signals obtained by using of 95 % confidence level. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  13. Multi taper method analysis of the 33 years long of the solar flare index from 1975 to 2007. Horizontal lines show the significant levels corresponding to red noise spectrum at 90, 95, and 99% confidence limits. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  14. Multi taper method analysis of the 33 years long surface air temperature of the four sub-regions from 1975 to 2007. Horizontal lines show the significant levels corresponding to red noise spectrum at 90, 95, and 99% confidence limits. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  15. Periodical analysis results show that all sub-regions temperature data sets have all about the same periodicity, albeit showing small differences There are two meaningful groups of periods for the surface air temperature, which are at 1.3–1.8 and 2.4-2.6 years. The first group found in our study was reported by Kirivova and Solanki (2002) when analyzing the sunspot areas and the sunspot number data, respectively for the 1880 – 2000 and the 1750 – 2000 time periods. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  16. Such a period of ~1.3-year can be a sub-harmonic of other periodic effects including the well known Schwabe cycle (10.5-year). This issue may be related to the quasi-biennial oscillations of occurring in the stratospheric winds. This is a possibility. Obridko and Shelting (2007) recently reported that oscillations of 1.3-yr period are closely associated with quasi-biennial oscillations of large-scale solar magnetic field. This is another possibility. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  17. Spectral analysis of 60 -70 degree groupshows 5.7 years periodicity. This period may be related to geomagnetic activity (5.25-year) and of course indirectly to solar activity. However using the geomagnetic activity index aa, Kane (1997) found a QBO and a 5.4-years periodicity during the period of time 1868 – 1994. This periodicity was also reported in the biological and biophysical studies. Nevertheless, such a period is not seen in the flare index spectral analysis. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  18. FI and temperature anomalies show an opposite behavior from 1982 to 1985 and from1991 to 1994. It is interesting to note that at the same time periods there were strong volcanic activities (March 28, 1982, El Chichon; 17.4N, 93.2W; and April 2, 1991, Pinatubo; 15.13N, 120.35E) and as seen in figure below, the net solar radiation decreased remarkably as measured at Mauna Loa observatory (19.54N, 155.58W). 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  19. (e) 60-70 (d) 50-60 (c) 40-50 (b) 30-40 (a) FI Dotted vertical lines mark the beginning of the two volcanic activities, El Chichon and Pinatuba, respectively. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  20. There is growing evidence that solar variability drives the Earth climate system in various ways and on multiple time scales resulting in various proxies. A list of these proxies can be found for instance in Rozelot (1990). Among all of them, the tree-ring time series is not frequently used but might be significant. For instance suppressed time of solar activity is well marked (Mauder Minimum), simply due to the influence of the climate on the growth of the trees. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  21. Recently Rigozo et al., (2007) have found evidence for the presence of the solar activity long term periods (~11, 22, 80, and 208 years) by examining the tree ring time series extended over a period of 400 years. They have also reported that these periods are intermittent, possibly because solar activity signals observed in the tree rings are mostly due to solar influence on local climate. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  22. Conclusions Signatures of solar activity effect exist on surface air temperature of some mid-latitude regions according to our statistical analysis and over the considered period of time. Investigation of Sun-climate relationship on local scale may give better possibilities for understanding of the problem than global scale. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  23. References Kane, R. P., 1997. Quasi-biennial and quasi-triennial oscillations in geomagnetic activity indices. Annales Geophysicae 15, 1581-1594. Krivova, N.A., and Solanki, S.K., 2002. The 1.3-year and 156-day periodicities in sunspot data: Wavelet analysis suggests a common origin. Astronomy and Astrophysics 394, 701–706. Obridko, VN; Shelting, BD, 2007. Occurrence of the 1.3-year periodicity in the large-scale solar magnetic field for 8 solar cycles. Advances in Space Research 40, 1006-1014. Rigozo, N. R.,Nordemann, D.J.R., Souza Echer, M.P., Echer, E., da Silva, H.E., Prestes, A., Guarnieri, F.L., 2007. Solar activity imprints in tree ring width from Chili (1610-1991). JASTP 69, 1049-1056. Rozelot, J.P., 1990. Historical reconstruction of past solar cycles and links with the Earth climate. In "New approaches in Geomagnetism and the Earth's Rotation", ed. S. Flodmark, World Scientific, London, pp. 245-253. 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

  24. THANK YOU 2009 UN/NASA/ESA/JAXA Workshop on BSS & IHY 2007

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