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A Climatic Model of Solar Radiation and Temperature Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Clayton H. Reitan
Clayton H. Reitan*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois 60115 USA.
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Abstract

Mean monthly temperatures for the Northern Hemisphere were determined for the years 1955 through 1968 following the same procedures used by H. C. Willett and J. M. Mitchell, Jr., in their studies of long-term trends. It was found that the downward trend they reported starting in the 1940s continued, though interrupted, into the 1960s.

The temperature data when combined with radiation data and other components of the hemispheric energy budget led to the formulation of the response ratio, the relationship between change in incoming solar radiation and change in temperature. When this response ratio was applied to the reported trends in direct solar radiation and to the decrease in direct solar radiation following the eruption of Agung in 1963, a probable cause-effect relationship was suggested.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 25 - 38
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University of Washington

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