Effect of volcanic activities and CO₂ concentration on summer temperature in middle stratosphere, North Hemisphere

Abstract

Successive filtration and comparison show that the stratosphere air temperature in 10 hPa-layer of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) in July continuously increases, which is associated to the increases in greenhouse gases mostly CO₂, volcanic activities, and solar activity, demonstrating the follows. (a) The increase in CO₂ concentration is largely consistent with that of the stratosphere air temperature in 10 hPa-layer of the NH in July. However, the increase in the air temperature is not in a linear pattern, during which several cooling events interrupt. The cooling events between late 1960s and late 1970s are remarkable ones and so is the one before mid 1990s. Analysis shows that these events are induced by volcanic activities and solar activity. (b) The CO₂-free variation in the stratosphere air temperature in 10 hPa-layer of the NH is consistent with that of the solar magnetic index. The wave crests and wave troughs of the two curves are consistent in phase, and the curve of solar magnetic index leads the other slightly. In other words, when the solar magnetic pole is southward, a warming in the NH stratosphere corresponds; and on the contrary, the northward solar magnetic pole corresponds to a cooling event. The variation in solar magnetic polarity strongly impacts the variation in the stratosphere temperature.

Keywords

volcanic activity / climate variation / solar activity / solar magnetic field / CO₂ concentration / greenhouse effect

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