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Variations in the optical and IR transparency of the Earth’s atmosphere under the action of cosmic rays and change in the thermodynamic parameters of the atmosphere

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The effect of cosmic rays on the transparency of the Earth’s atmosphere and variations in its thermodynamic parameters is analyzed. Possible reasons for the change in the atmospheric transparency are considered. It is shown that variations in the transparency lead to a change in the temperature (and, therefore, pressure) distribution in the Earth’s atmosphere, as a result of which cosmic rays may affect the Earth’s climate.

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  1. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia

    I. V. Kudryavtsev

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Original Russian Text © I.V. Kudryavtsev, 2007, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2007, Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 1049–1051.

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Kudryavtsev, I.V. Variations in the optical and IR transparency of the Earth’s atmosphere under the action of cosmic rays and change in the thermodynamic parameters of the atmosphere. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 71, 1021–1023 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873807070386

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