Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System / Project on Solar Effects on Chemistry and Climate Including Ocean Interactions (CAWSES/ProSECCO)

Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System / Project on Solar Effects on Chemistry and Climate Including Ocean Interactions (CAWSES/ProSECCO) is a joint project of the two partners Freie Universität Berlin and MPI-C, funded by the DFG. The common goal is to study the impact of variations in solar activity on Earth's climate in coordinated simulations with state-of-the-art climate model systems. The project addresses aspects of coupling processes from the upper atmosphere to the oceans. It is split into two parts investigating the impact of solar variability on the decadal time-scale (Part A) and on the centennial to millennial time-scale (Part B). In Part A, fundamental questions of the 11-year solar signal and the causing mechanisms, such as the impact of variations in particle precipitation and UV radiation on chemistry, stratospheric ozone and climate and the solar signal in the troposphere are studied. In Part B, effects of solar variability on climate of different pre-industrial periods are studied, focusing on the period from the Maunder Minimum until today and the Holocene.
external link: http://www.bu.edu/cawses

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