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During the last ten years, numerous efforts have been made in understanding how solar activity could generate terrestrial atmospheric disturbances.
This paper reviews different mechanisms and discusses solar activity which could affect the terrestrial atmosphere through two channels: XUV radiations reaching our atmosphere in few minutes at its top, and solar wind which transits through the interplanetary medium in a longer time.
It is shown that new types of generating mechanisms are needed, one of them being possibly a successive process need for dynamo-powered plasma acceleration. Obviously, direct statistical methods must be rejected as a means for understanding solar-terrestrial relationship, and success will come if we are able to separate, amongst a series of solar events, those which really generate climatic changes on the earth.
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Rozelot, J.P. Energy transfer between the Sun and the Magnetosphere. Applications to climatic disturbances. Int J Biometeorol 28, 73–83 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02193517
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02193517