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DR KING REPLIES—It is widely believed that long term changes in the circulation of the lower atmosphere will be accompanied by climatic variations. The causes of these changes have not yet been established and at the present time, therefore, they are not predictable. I and other workers (see ref. 1) have suggested that the Earth's magnetic field may influence, through some unknown mechanism, the behaviour of the lower atmosphere at high latitudes in winter. Examples showing the type of evidence on which this suggestion is based are shown in Fig. 1; further evidence will be published elsewhere. I pointed out that such magnetometeorological evidence “cannot be construed as proof that the Earth's magnetic field and the average tropospheric pressure patterns are related, but it does suggest that more work on this problem should be undertaken.”
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KING Geomagnetism and the tropospheric circulation (Reply). Nature 252, 370–371 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/252370a0
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