Cosmic Rays, Clouds, and Climate

By K. Carslaw, Richard Harrison, J. Kirkby. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. M. Lockwood
2. S. Solanki
3. C. Fröhlich
4. J. Kirkby
5. Richard Harrison
6. N. Krivova
7. Earle Williams
8. I. Usoskin

In Atmospheric Science

1. M. Lockwood
2. S. Solanki
3. J. Pierce
4. Richard Harrison
5. A. Genevey
6. Y. Gallet
7. J. Kirkby
8. E. Bard

In Global and Planetary Change

1. M. Lockwood
2. J. Kirkby
3. Jan Adamowski
4. Earle Williams
5. J. Pierce
6. T. Mather
7. Richard Harrison
8. V. Pant

Citations in the corpus

• Development of a new method of wavelet aided trend detection and estimation (2009, background): “, 1988), and the cosmic ray intensity decreased (Carslaw et al., 2002).”
• Are there connections between the Earth's magnetic field and climate? (2007, background): “[ 36 ]): (1) changes in solar irradiance leading to changes in heat input to the lower atmosphere; (2) solar ultraviolet radiation coupled to changes in ozone concentration heating the stratosphere; and (3) galactic cosmic rays (the impact of GCR on climate was first proposed by Ney [37]).”
• Global Catastrophic Risks (2008, background): “The ions produced in cosmic ray showers increase the production of low altitude clouds (e.g., Carslaw et al. 2002).”
• Lightning and climate: A review (2005, background): “A major stimulus in the long-standing debate about sun-weather relationships has been the finding of correlation between galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and global cloud cover (Svensmarck and Friss-Christensen, 1997; Carslaw et al, 2002) on the 11-year solar cycle.”
• Climate change and solar variability: what's new under the sun? (2006, background): “Data for the next solar cycles will ultimately allow checking if there is any link between solar activity andcloudiness.Forthemoment,theexactmechanismsby whichcosmicradiationandsolarforcingmayaffectcloud formation remain very poorly understood and clearly require future research efforts [ 29 ].”
• Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature (2007, background): “This mechanism (Carslaw et al. 2002) has been highly controversial and the data series have generally been too short (and of inadequate homogeneity) to detect solar cycle variations in cloud cover; however, recent observations of short-lived (lasting of the order of 1 day) transient events indicate ”
• The Global Atmospheric Electrical Circuit and Climate (2004, background): “A more active Sun therefore reduces the cosmic ray flux penetrating down into the Earth’s lower atmosphere, and the steady increase in solar activity during the twentieth century has lead to a secular decline in cosmic rays (Carslaw et al. , 2002).”
• Electrification of volcanic plumes (2006, background): “The influence of ions on cloud processes has been the subject of recent research because the terrestrial surface energy balance, and with it the climate, could be highly sensitive to small electrically induced changes in cloud (Carslaw et al. 2002).”
• A new look at possible connections between solar activity, clouds and climate (2002, background): “A mechanism is suggested whereby solar irradiance variations are amplified by interacting with sea surface temperature (SST), and subsequently low cloud cover.”
• Solar activity and terrestrial climate: an analysis of some purported correlations (2003, neutral): “A discussion of the present, yet quite inadequate state of understanding is given by Carslaw et al. (2002) .”
• The atmospheric global electric circuit : An overview (2007, background): “The correlation between galactic cosmic rays and cloud cover an 11-year solar cycle basis (Carslaw et al., 2002) has enhanced the interest in the study of relationships between solar variations and weather changes.”
• Cosmic Rays and Climate (2005, background): “However since there is clear evidence for longterm variability of cosmic rays, the possibility of a direct influence of cosmic rays on the climate should also be seriously considered [26].”
• Can cosmic rays affect cloud condensation nuclei by altering new particle formation rates? (2009, background): “…climate sensitivity and response times of the climate system to external forcings, the variation in solar irradiance over the cycle of about 0.1% is insufficient by itself to explain the 0.1 K variation in tropospheric temperature associated with the solar cycle [Douglass and Clader, 2002;…”