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Does the troposphere respond to day-to-day changes in solar magnetic field?

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WILCOX ET AL.1 have reported a statistical correlation between the solar magnetic sector structure and the vorticity area index (VAI) during the period 1964–70. Characteristically, the VAI reached a minimum 1 day after the passage of a solar magnetic sector boundary (SSB), with the response being greatest in winter and at 500 and 300 mbar. This result has been the basis of many subsequent studies; in particular Wilcox et al.2 strengthened their previous results by extending the period of analysis to the 11 year interval 1963–73. We have examined the period 1974–77 and find that this characteristic response is now no longer evident.

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  1. R. GARETH WILLIAMS

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  1. Department of AstroGeophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80302

    R. GARETH WILLIAMS

  2. Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1919 Fourteenth Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302

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WILLIAMS, R., GERETY, E. Does the troposphere respond to day-to-day changes in solar magnetic field?. Nature 275, 200–201 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/275200b0

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