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We compare the series of daily-average values of the surface air pressure for De Bilt and Lugano meteorological stations with subtracted linear trends and seasonal harmonics, as well as the series of the flux of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) at Jungfraujoch station with subtracted moving average over 200 days. Using the method of superposed epochs, we show that the Forbush decreases at both stations are accompanied by increased pressure. Spectral analysis allows us to conclude that the analyzed series are characterized by nonzero coherence in almost the entire frequency range: from 0.02 day−1 day up to the Nyquist frequency of 0.5 day−1. Using changes in the GCR flux as a probing signal, we obtain amplitude-frequency characteristics of the pressure reaction. For both stations, these characteristics are in qualitative agreement with each other and indicate that the atmospheric response can be described by a second-order linear dynamic system that has wide resonance with a maximum at a frequency of 0.15 day−1.
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Original Russian Text © M.B. Bogdanov, 2014, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 829–833.
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Bogdanov, M.B. Frequency characteristic of response of surface air pressure to changes in flux of cosmic rays. Geomagn. Aeron. 54, 813–818 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793214060097
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