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The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate

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The human awareness of weather and climate goes as far back in time as the human race, although the deliberate recording of climate is a recent development. The recognition of solar activity has been a thing of only the last four centuries. It is safe to say that in neither case of climate or solar activity, do we possess an understanding of the whole phenomenon, and the effect of activity on the climate is a thing that has yet to be quantified.

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  1. Enrico Fermi Institute and Depts. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA

    E. N. Parker

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  1. CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 5, place Jules Janssen, F-92195, Meudon, France

    Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes

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Parker, E.N. (1994). Summary comments. In: Nesme-Ribes, E. (eds) The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate. NATO ASI Series, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79257-1_35

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