Cosmic Radiation and the Weather

@article{Ney1959CosmicRA,  title={Cosmic Radiation and the Weather},  author={Edward P. Ney},  journal={Nature},  year={1959},  volume={183},  pages={451-452},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4157226}}
  • E. Ney
  • Published inNature14 February 1959
  • Environmental Science, Physics
THE purpose of this communication is to point out the existence of a large tropospheric and stratospheric effect produced by the solar-cycle modulation of cosmic rays. Since there is some evidence for solar-cycle correlations in the weather, the phenomena described here should be considered in attempts to understand climatological effects of solar-cycle period. 

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