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SR and Global Temperature

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Schumann Resonance for Tyros

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SR oscillations are excited by electromagnetic radiation from the global lightning, whose intensity is proportional to the level worldwide thunderstorm activity. Since thunderstorms are driven by the air convection, one may expect that SR intensity is connected with the global soil temperature. When the surface temperature grows, the convection increases, the water vapor transport becomes stronger, and the clouds become thicker. Vertical motion of particles in a cloud leads to its electrification. Therefore, the thunderstorm activity should increase with the convection and the underlying surface temperature, and this effect must be observed as relevant increase in the SR intensity. After a short historical review, we formally compare the data of SR monitoring with the data on the global soil temperature from November 1998 to May 2002. By using the singular spectral analysis (SSA), we single out the annual, semi-annual, and interannual variations from the SR record and the temperature data within different latitude intervals and compare these. Analyses demonstrated that annual SR variations follow the temperature alterations within the mid-latitude interval. Simultaneously, the inter-annual variations in the resonance intensity are similar to the temperature anomaly of the tropical belt. The non-linear relations were derived that allowed us to compute SR cumulative intensity from the temperature data or to reconstruct the global temperature from the resonance monitoring.

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  1. National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine

    Alexander Nickolaenko

  2. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Masashi Hayakawa

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Nickolaenko, A., Hayakawa, M. (2014). SR and Global Temperature. In: Schumann Resonance for Tyros. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54358-9_11

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