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Dependence of stratospheric temperature on the 11-year solar activity cycle?

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An investigation has been undertaken as to whether the 11-year activity cycle of the Sun can affect the temperature of the stratosphere at heights between 11 km (tropopause) and 36 km. An extended, and more sophisticated analysis of diurnal temperature data, available from radio-sonde measurements made at Berlin during the period 1958–1982, revealed, in contrast to an earlier result, that during both the summer and autumn seasons, when the radiative balance is dominant in determining the temperature profiles, and also during the winter and spring, when warming and cooling effects are present respectively, no clear dependence on the solar cycle was found to exist. Furthermore warming effects observed in winter show no dependence on solar activity.

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  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, D-3411, Katlenburg-Lindau, F.R.G.

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Schwentek, H., Elling, W. Dependence of stratospheric temperature on the 11-year solar activity cycle?. Sol Phys 91, 181–191 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00213623

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