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Published June 2004 | Published
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The pattern of northern hemisphere surface air temperature during prolonged periods of low solar output

Abstract

We show that the reconstructed sensitivity of the sea level temperature to long term solar forcing in the Northern Hemisphere is in very good agreement with the empirical temperature pattern corresponding to changes of the North Annular Mode (NAM). This implies that long-term variations of solar output affect climate predominantly through the NAM that extends throughout the stratosphere and troposphere.

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© 2004 American Geophysical Union. Received 11 March 2004; revised 6 April 2004; accepted 14 April 2004; published 16 June 2004. The images shown in Figure 1 are generated by using the NOAA- CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center web site. This work was supported in part by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA, and by the NASA LWS grant to the California Institute of Technology.

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