Solar and geomagnetic activity and their influences on the terrestrial environment.

OBJECTIVES / ACTIVITIES

The project tries to establish long-term correlations between solar/geomagnetic activity and climate parameters at longer time-scales than currently approached (11- and 22-year solar cycles). The main objectives of the project are:

To analyze solar/geomagnetic activity described by various indices and climatic parameters such as surface air temperature and precipitation from different databases (observational data and reanalyzed gridded data) for marking out trends and periodicities in data at Earth’s surface and several levels in the troposhere;

To investigate the long-term statistical correlation, at Schwabe and Hale cycles timescales, between solar/geomagnetic activity and climatic parameters at local, regional and continental scales.