Summary
The opposite effect of the total ozone on daily maximum and minimum air temperatures is one of the reasons for the failure of the correlation between solar activity and surface air temperature by means of mean daily values. The solar-related fluctuations in the atmospheric total ozone are found to be responsible for the observed correlations between solar activity and separately daily maximum and minimum air temperatures. The present evidence indicates that ozone serves as a stratospheric shutter modulating both the incoming daytime visible solar energy flux and the Earth's night-time upward infrared radiation transferred downward.
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Der umgekehrte Effekt des gesamten Ozons auf die Tagesmaxima und -minima der Lufttemperatur ist einer der Gründe für die mißglückte Korrelation zwischen Sonnenaktivität und Oberflächenlufttemperatur, wie sie bis jetzt aus Tagesmittelwerten ermittelt wurde. Die sonnenabhängige Fluktuation im atmosphärischen Gesamtozon erwies sich als Ursache der genannten Korrelation zwischen Sonnenaktivität und täglichen Maxima und Minima der Lufttemperaturen andererseits. Damit wird darauf hingewiesen, daß Ozon als stratosphärischer Absorber sowohl für die tagsüber einfallende sichtbare Sonnenstrahlung als auch für die nächtliche, rücktransferrierte Erdinfrarotabstrahlung wirkt.
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Mazzarella, A., Palumbo, A. The 11-yr ozone modulation of extreme surface air temperatures. Theor Appl Climatol 40, 155–160 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00866178
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