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Solar Influence: ‘Top Down’ vs. ‘Bottom Up’

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Two fundamentally different routes have been proposed for a solar influence on the troposphere: the first is the ‘bottom-up’ and the other the ‘top-down’ mechanism. In the ‘bottom-up’ pathway, the Sun can directly influence sea surface temperature (SST) without stratospheric feedback, whereas the ‘top-down’ solar influence is generated through the stratosphere without any influence from oceans. Those two routes are discussed in details with relevant supporting studies.

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Roy, I. (2018). Solar Influence: ‘Top Down’ vs. ‘Bottom Up’. In: Climate Variability and Sunspot Activity. Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77107-6_10

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