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1 Indian Journal of Geo-Marine Sciences Vol. 43(5), May 2014, pp Solar variability and global climate change S.C. Dubey Department of Physics, S.G.S. Govt. P.G. College, Sidhi (M.P.) Pin , India. [ Received 19 August 2012 ; revised 14 January 2013 Present study consists solar influence on global climate change, including the physics of solar variability. Climate change is a long-term change in the weather patterns over periods of time that may range from decades to thousands of years. The basic components that influence the Earth s climatic system can occur externally (from extraterrestrial systems) and internally (from ocean, atmosphere and land systems). Total solar irradiance (TSI) has been monitored continuously from space since Long-term solar irradiance variations might contribute to global warming over decades or hundreds of years. According to TSI variation trends in recent decades, the Sun has contributed a slight cooling influence but our globe is warmed up continuously. It is indication for a dangerous period and high awareness about global warming is most essential. Adverse impact of climate change and global warming in our ecosystems and challenges in near future along-with perspective role of solar influences in recent climate change have been discussed in the present study. [Keywords: Total solar irradiance (TSI), Solar influence, Global climate change, Greenhouse gases (GHGs), Solar energetic particle events (SEPs) and Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs)] Introduction Of the many objects in the universe, only two are well known for our climate change and global warming, one is Earth itself and other the Sun. According to IPCC 2007, it has been observed that over the 20 th century, the mean global surface temperature increased by 0.7 C 1. Earth s climate system constantly adjusts so as to maintain a balance between the energy that reaches it from the Sun and the energy that goes from Earth back to space. An increase in the levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) could lead to greater warming, and have an impact on the world s climate, known as climate change. Herschel 2 was the first to speculate that the Sun s variations may play a role in the variability of the Earth s climate. The role of solar variability in climate estimates of the solar influence on the global mean surface temperature. The most obvious impact of the Sun is its influence on the Earth s radiation budget through variations in TSI. Crowley 3 included estimates of forcing by solar activity, greenhouse gas concentrations, volcanic dust and tropospheric aerosol and was able to reproduce the gross variations of a global temperature reconstruction, including the cooler period of the 17 th century and warming during the 20 th century. Climate Observations Solar impact on the Earth s climate in the upper atmosphere interacts most directly with the radiation, particles and magnetic fields emitted by the Sun. Solar signals in the stratosphere are relatively large. Ozone is the main gas involved in radiative heating of the stratosphere. Solar-induced variations in ozone can therefore directly affect the radiative balance of the stratosphere with indirect effects on circulation. Solar-induced ozone variations are possible through: (a) changes in solar ultraviolet (UV) spectral solar irradiance, which modifies the ozone production rate through photolysis of molecular oxygen, primarily in the mid-to-upper stratosphere at low latitudes 4, and (b) changes in the precipitation rate of energetic charged particles, which can indirectly modify ozone concentrations through changes in the abundance of trace species that catalytically destroy ozone, primarily
2 872 INDIAN J MAR SCI. VOL 43. No. 5 MAY 2014 at polar latitudes 5. In addition, transport-induced changes in ozone can occur 6-9 as a consequence of indirect effects on circulation caused by the above two processes. Solar UV radiation directly influence stratospheric temperatures and the dynamical response to this heating extends the solar influence both poleward and downwards to the lower stratosphere and tropopause region. Evidence that this influence can also penetrate into the underlying troposphere is accruing from a number of different sources. Earth s upper atmosphere The Earth s magnetosphere and upper atmosphere can be greatly perturbed by variations in the solar variations caused by disturbances on the Sun. The state of near-earth space environment is governed by the Sun and is very dynamic on all spatial and temporal scales 10. Mechanisms proposed to explain the climate response on solar variations can be grouped broadly into two categories. The first involves to variations in TSI. The second mechanism category involves energetic particles, including solar energetic particle events (SEPs) and galactic cosmic rays (GCRs). SEPs are generated at the shock fronts ahead of major solar magnetic eruptions and penetrate the Earth s magnetic field over the poles where they enter the thermosphere, mesosphere, and, on rare occasions, the stratosphere. The geomagnetic field which protects the Earth from solar wind and cosmic rays is also essential to the evolution of life; its variations can have either direct or indirect effect on human physiology and health state even if the magnitude of the disturbance is small. Geomagnetic storms are seen at the surface of the Earth as perturbations in the components of the geomagnetic field, caused by electric currents flowing in the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere. Ionospheric and thermospheric storms also result from the redistribution of particles and fields. Global thermospheric storm winds and composition changes are driven by energy injection at high latitudes. Storm effects may penetrate downwards to the lower thermosphere and may even perturb the mesosphere. Many of the ionospheric changes at mid-latitude can be understood as a response to thermospheric perturbations. A typical mid-latitude ionospheric storm has a relatively brief increase (positive phase) in F2 peak electron density (NmF2) and total electron content (TEC), followed by an extended decrease (negative phase), especially in the summer hemisphere. At low latitudes, the positive phase may be longer and the negative phase absent altogether. However, there are considerable variations in this scenario from storm-to-storm, depending on location, level of solar activity, magnitude of the geomagnetic disturbance, season, local time, time of day of the commencement, and the duration of the storm. solar impact Changes in visible and infrared solar radiation alter the surface temperature by simple heating; other parts of the spectrum can also affect climate. The enhanced UV radiation released from the Sun during high solar activity increases the amount of ozone in the stratosphere. At solar minima, less ozone is found. One consequence of these solar perturbations is to complicate the detection of human-induced depletion of the protective ozone layer; another may be to perturb the temperature at the Earth s surface, through connections that link the upper and lower parts of the atmosphere. Sunspots are huge magnetic storms that are seen as dark (cooler) areas on the Sun s surface. These spots may be of diameter km and appear as dark spots within the photosphere, the outermost layer of the Sun. The number of sunspots peaks every 11 years. There is a strong radial magnetic field within a sunspot and the direction of the field reverses in alternate years within the leading sunspots of a group. So the true sunspot cycle is 22 years. The number and size of sunspots show cyclical patterns, reaching a maximum about every 11, 22, 88 and 176 years. The solar activities vary with 11-year sunspot cycles. The measurements made with a solar telescope from 1976 to 1980 showed that during this period, as the number and size of sunspots increased, the Sun s surface cooled by about 6 C. Apparently, the sunspots prevented some of the Sun s energy from leaving its surface. However, these findings tend to contradict
3 DUBEY : SOLAR VARIABILITY AND GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE 873 observations made on longer time s scales. Observations of the Sun during the middle of the Little Ice Age ( ) indicated that very little sunspot activity was occurring on the Sun s surface 11. The Little Ice Age was a time of a much cooler global climate and very little sunspot activity occurring on the Sun. Sunspot numbers clearly reveal trends in solar magnetic phenomena. There are longer cycles than the 11-year sunspot cycle known as Gleissberg cycle (88-year) with variable amplitudes. The cosmogenic radio nuclides confirm the existence of other longer periodicities (e.g. 208-year DeVries or Suess cycle, 2300-year Hallstatt cycle and others) and also the present relatively high level of solar activity, although there is some controversy During periods of maximum sunspot activity, the Sun s magnetic field is strong. When sunspot activity is low, the Sun s magnetic field weakens. The magnetic field of the Sun also reverses every 22 years, during a sunspot minimum. The Milankovitch theory suggests that normal cyclical variations in three of the Earth s orbital characteristics are probably responsible for some past climatic change. Periods of a larger tilt result in greater seasonal climatic variation in the middle and high latitudes. At these times, winters tend to be colder and summers warmer. Colder winters produce less snow because of lower atmospheric temperatures. As a result, less snow and ice accumulates on the ground surface. Moreover, the warmer summers produced by the larger tilt provide additional energy to melt and evaporate the snow that fell and accumulated during the winter months. In conclusion, glaciers in the polar regions should be generally receding, with other contributing factors constant, during this part of the obliquity cycle. The galactic cosmic rays increase the amount of C-14 in the atmospheric Co 2 and, consequently, also in vegetation. During the increased solar activity close to solar cycle maximum years, Earth is better shielded from the cosmic rays than during the minimum years, and the amount of C-14 decreases. Thus the C-14 content of, for example, annual rings of old trees may reveal something about the Sun s performance during the last few millennia. Some studies have indicated that there is a connection between long term climate change and Sun s activity 15,16. One possible mechanism operating is that during high activity levels the decreased amount of galactic cosmic rays could lead to reduced cloud formation in the atmosphere, and hence to increased temperatures. The basis of the hypothesis of Svensmark 17 is that weak solar activity causes a weak solar wind, which in turn increases the number of galactic cosmic rays penetrating the Earth s atmosphere. This increases low level cloud formation and the Earth s albedo. The Earth cools as a consequence. Solar Variability The TSI is integrated solar energy flux over the entire spectrum which arrives at the top of the atmosphere at the mean Sun-Earth distance. TSI has been monitored from 1978 by several satellites, e.g. Nimbus 7, Solar Maximum Mission (SMM), the NASA, Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS), NOAA9, NOAA 10, Eureca and the UARS (Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite) etc. The variation in TSI arises from the variation in the Earth-Sun distance. The TSI observations show variations ranging from a few days up to the 11-year sunspot cycle and longer timescales 18. Recent research indicates that variability in TSI associated with the 11-year sunspot cycle arises almost entirely from the distribution of sizes of the patches where magnetic field threads through the visible surface of the Sun. Solar variability on time scales of centuries to millennia can be reconstructed using cosmogenic radio nuclides such as 10 Be and 14 C whose production rate in the atmosphere is modulated by solar activity. In this way, at least the past 10,000 years can be reconstructed 19, although the temporal resolution is poorer, signal to noise ratio is lower and the record must be corrected for variations in the geomagnetic field. Recently, Steinhilber 20 derived from 10 Be the first TSI record covering almost 10,000 years and calculated the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) necessary to explain the observed production changes corrected for the geomagnetic dipole effects. They
4 874 INDIAN J MAR SCI. VOL 43. No. 5 MAY 2014 then used the relationship between instrumental IMF and TSI data during sunspot cycle minima to derive an estimate of the TSI record. The long-term TSI variations might contribute to global warming over decades or hundreds of years. Some of these changes, particularly small shifts in the length of the solar activity cycle. Sun has shown a slight cooling trend since 1960, over the same period that global temperatures have been warm. According to TSI variation trends in recent decades, the Sun has contributed a slight cooling influence but our globe is warmed up continuously. It is indication for a dangerous period and high awareness about global warming is most essential, otherwise we left our Earth as flame of burning for next generation. Variation in global average temperature Global average temperature is forecast to rise 4 C (7.2 F) toward the end of the 21 st century. Atmospheric Co 2 is an important kind of greenhouse gas which influences global temperature. Its concentration variation could indicate the distribution of human and natural activities in various regions. The amount of Co 2 that can be held in oceans is a function of temperature. Co 2 is released from the oceans when global temperatures become warmer and diffuses into the ocean when temperatures are cooler. The increase in Co 2 then amplified the global warming by enhancing the greenhouse effect. The long-term climate change represents a connection between the concentrations of Co 2 in the atmosphere and means global temperature. Certain atmospheric gases, like Co 2, water vapor and methane, are able to alter the energy balance of the Earth by being able to absorb long wave radiation emitted from the Earth s surface. Without the greenhouse effect, the average global temperature of the Earth would be a cold -18 C rather than the present 15 C. Co 2 concentrations in the atmosphere have increased from about 280 ppm in pre-industrial times to 387 ppm at present 21. This rise runs approximately parallel with the increase in Co 2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion. Since 1990 there have been some indications that the increment is levelling off. The average annual increment over the last 10 years was 1.66 ppmv/yr. These increases are projected to reach more than 560 ppm before the end of the 21 st century. References 1 IPCC 2007, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change eds: Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, Herschel, W., Observations tending to investigate the nature of the Sun, in order to find the causes or symptoms of its variable emission of light and heat: with remarks on the use that may possibly be drawn from solar observations, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond., 91 (1801) Crowley, T.J., Causes of climate change over the past 1000 years, Science, 289 (2000) Haigh, J. D., The role of stratospheric ozone in modulating the solar radiative forcing of climate, Nature, 370 (1994) Randall, C. E., V. Harvey, C. S. Singleton, S. Bailey, P. Bernath, M. Codrescu, H. Nakajima, and J. M. Russell III, Energetic particle precipitation effects on the Southern Hemisphere stratosphere in , J. Geophys. Res., 112 (2007) D08308, 6 Hood, L.L. and B.E. Soukharev, Quasi-Decadal Variability of the Tropical Lower Stratosphere: The Role of Extratropical Wave Forcing, J. Atmos. Sci., 60 (2003) Rind, D., D. Shindell, J. Perlwitz, J. Lerner, P. Lonergan, J. Lean and C. McLinden, The relative importance of solar and anthropogenic forcing of climate change between the Maunder Minimum and the present, J. Clim., 17 (2004) Shindell, D. T., G. Faluvegi, R. L. Miller, G. A. Schmidt, J. E. Hansen, and S. Sun, Solar and anthropogenic forcing of tropical hydrology, Geophys. Res. Lett, 33 (2006) L24706, 9 Gray, L.J., S.T. Rumbold and K.P. Shine, Stratospheric temperature and radiative forcing response to 11-year solar cycle changes in irradiance and ozone, J. Atmos. Sci., 66 (2009) Bothmer, V. and Daglis, I.A., Space Weather: Physics and Effects. Springer Praxis Books, Environ-mental Sciences (2006). 11 Eddy, J.A., The Maunder Minimum, Science, 192 (1976)
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