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Science 22 June 1979:
Vol. 204. no. 4399, pp. 1303 - 1306
DOI: 10.1126/science.204.4399.1303
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Ozone and Temperature Trends Associated with the 11-Year Solar Cycle

LINWOOD B. CALLIS 1, MURALI NATARAJAN 2, and JOHN E. NEALY 3

1 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia 23665
2 George Washington University at NASA Langley Research Center
3 NASA Langley Research Center

Evidence is presented which suggests that trends in the ozone concentration and stratospheric temperature, reported between the early 1960's and 1976, are to a large extent due to solar ultraviolet flux variability associated with the 11-year solar cycle. Radiative-convective-photochemical simulations of ozone and temperature variations have been made with a solar ultraviolet flux variability model. Results for temperatures and ozone concentrations, when compared with published data, show good agreement.

Submitted on August 23, 1978
Revised on February 6, 1979


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