31Jan 2016

Interrelationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and Solar cycle

  • Cairo University, Faculty of Science, Department Of Astronomy and Meteorology - Cairo- Egypt.
  • National Researches Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) , Department of solar and Space Researches – Helwan – Egypt.
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Understanding the influence of solar variability on the Earth’s climate requires knowledge of solar variability, solar interactions, and the mechanisms explain the response of the Earth’s climate system. The NAO (North Atlantic oscillation) is one of the most dominant modes of global climate variability. Like El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation, it is considered as free internal oscillation of the climate system not subjected to external forcing. It is shown, to be linked to energetic solar eruptions. Surprisingly, it turns out that features of solar activity have been related to El Niño and La Niña, also have an significant impact on the NAO. The climate of the Atlantic sector exhibits considerable variability on a wide range of time scales. A substantial portion is associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a hemispheric meridional oscillation as atmospheric mass with centers of action near Iceland and over the subtropical Atlantic. NAO- has a related impacts on winter climate extend from Florida to Greenland and from northwestern Africa over Europe far into northern Asian region. In the present work solar cycle 22 was implemented via sun spots number and area and there interrelationship with NAO index and discussed their dependency which consequently that could be used to predict the behavior of NAO index in the next solar cycle as an indicator to climatic variability.


[M.A.Wahab, M. M Shaltoot, S.Youssef and M.M.Hussein (2016); Interrelationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation and Solar cycle Int. J. of Adv. Res. 4 (Jan). 261-266] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


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