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Solar Effects on Chemistry and Climate Including Ocean Interactions

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In the Project on Solar Effects on Chemistry and Climate Including Ocean Interactions (ProSECCO) fundamental questions of the impact of solar variability on Earth have been investigated with improved climate system models and observations. On the decadal time scale, the atmospheric signature of the 11-year Schwabe cycle and the underlying mechanisms have been studied. This included the impact of variations in UV radiation and particle precipitation on stratospheric chemistry and ozone, as well as on the solar signal in the troposphere and on climate. On the centennial to millennium time scale, effects of solar variability on climate of different pre-industrial periods, focusing on the Maunder Minimum and the mid-Holocene, have been addressed.

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Acknowledgements

Model simulations with EMAC-FUB were performed at an SGI-Altix supercomputer of HLRN Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum Berlin and on an IBM power-6 at ECMWF in Reading, UK with computing time provided by DWD. The EMAC (L90) simulations were performed on the IBM power-6 computer at Rechenzentrum Garching of Max-Planck-Society. Simulations with EGMAM were performed on a NEC-SX6 supercomputer at DKRZ, Hamburg. Data of simulations with ECHO-G were provided by E. Zorita (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, formerly GKSS).

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  1. Institut für Meteorologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Carl-Heinrich-Becker-Weg 6-10, 12165, Berlin, Germany

    Ulrike Langematz, Anne Kubin, Ulrich Cubasch & Thomas Spangehl

  2. Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128, Mainz, Germany

    Christoph Brühl & Andreas J. G. Baumgaertner

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Langematz, U., Kubin, A., Brühl, C., Baumgaertner, A.J.G., Cubasch, U., Spangehl, T. (2013). Solar Effects on Chemistry and Climate Including Ocean Interactions. In: Lübken, FJ. (eds) Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES). Springer Atmospheric Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4348-9_29

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