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The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes

    1. CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries I: (ASII, volume 25)

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Table of contents (35 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. The Solar Dynamo

    • Paul H. Roberts
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Differential Solar Rotation

    • Günther Rüdiger, Leonid L. Kitchatinov
    Pages 27-47

  4. Oscillatory Dynamos Showing Change of Parity on a Large Time Scale

    • F. Krause
    Pages 49-56

  5. A New Reconstruction of Solar Activity, 1610–1993

    • Douglas V. Hoyt, Kenneth H. Schatten, Elizabeth Nesmes-Ribes
    Pages 57-70

  6. The Maunder Minimum and the Solar Dynamo

    • E. Nesme-Ribes, D. Sokoloff, J. C. Ribes, M. Kremliovsky
    Pages 71-97

  7. Panel Discussion on the Modern Status of Solar Dynamo

    • D. Sokoloff
    Pages 99-106

  8. Theories of Radius and Luminosity Variations

    • H. C. Spruit
    Pages 107-131

  9. A technique for estimating long-term variations of solar total irradiance: Preliminary estimates based on observations of the Sun and solar-type stars

    • W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas, Q. Zhang
    Pages 133-143

  10. Surrogates for total solar irradiance

    • W. Livingston
    Pages 145-162

  11. Solar Forcing of Global Change

    • Judith Lean
    Pages 163-184

  12. The Observed Spatial Non-Uniformity and Temporal Variability of the Solar Limb-Darkening Function

    • Ronald J. Kroll
    Pages 185-191

  13. Panel discussion on Solar Diameter Variations

    • Ph. Delache, R. J. Kroll
    Pages 193-202

  14. Atmospheric 14C as a Proxy of Solar and Climatic Change

    • Minze Stuiver
    Pages 203-220

  15. 10Be as an indicator of solar variability and climate

    • J. Beer, F. Joos, C. Lukasczyk, W. Mende, J. Rodriguez, U. Siegenthaler et al.
    Pages 221-233

  16. Panel Discussions on Total Solar Irradiance Variations and the Maunder Minimum

    • J. M. Pap, O. R. White
    Pages 235-258

  17. The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in the Earth’s Atmosphere and its Links to Longer Period Variability

    • James R. Holton
    Pages 259-273

  18. The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Observed in the Semidiurnal Ground Pressure Data and in the Ionospheric F Layer

    • H. Teitelbaum
    Pages 275-292

  19. The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO): Some Points about the Terrestrial QBO and the Possibility of Related Phenomena in the Solar Interior

    • Michael E. McIntyre
    Pages 293-320

  20. Sensitivity of Climate to Variations of the Solar Output: Radiative Processes and their Parametrization in Numerical Models

    • Jean-Jacques Morcrette
    Pages 321-352
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The message of sunspots from the interior of the Sun to the Earth's climate When Galileo was summoned before the Inquisition on April 12, 1633, the main accusations laid against him concerned the doubts he expressed about Aristotle's theory of the universe. Aristotle's idea was that the Earth was the centre of the cosmos and that all of the stars, including the Sun, turned around it. Moreover, for Aristotle and the world of the Inquisitors, the Sun was a perfect celestial body. Now, Galileo had discovered spots on the Sun. These spots were seen as imperfections, and not just surface markings, but coming from within the Sun. Worse yet, they revolved around the Sun. All this supported the newfangled theory of Copernicus, and undermined a system of thought that had reigned supreme for centuries. Man of science that he was, and a prudent Catholic too, Galileo strived all his life to prove that Copernicus' astronomical concept was compatible with the word of the Bible. He proposed that there were not two truths but a single divine truth. It was just expressed in two different languages : there was the language of the common people, with its imprecision and inconsistencies, but intuitively understandable by everyone; and then there was the precise language of science with its strict regard for observation, which only a chosen few can grasp [L. Geymonat. 1992].

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  • CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France

    Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes

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