The Hidden Link Between Earth’s Magnetic Field and Climate

The Hidden Link Between Earth’s Magnetic Field and Climate offers a new framework of understanding and interpretation for both well-known and less known relations between different geophysical and meteorological variables which can improve the quality of climate modeling. The book reviews the most current research on both current and paleo data to introduce a causal chain of interactions between the geomagnetic field, energetic particles which bombard the Earth’s atmosphere, ozone and humidity near the tropopause, and surface temperature.

The impacts of these complicated interactions is not uniformly distributed over the globe, thus contributing to our understanding of regional differences in climatic changes and the asymmetrical ozone distribution over the globe.

Covers the newly discovered autocatalytic cycle for ozone production in the lower stratosphere, providing a better understanding of the heterogeneous distribution of ozone globallyOutlines a mechanism for the lower stratospheric ozone influence on the temperature and humidity of the upper troposphereProvides a single resource on research in energetic particles’ modulation by heterogeneous geomagnetic fields, mechanisms of the influence of particles on the atmospheric ozone, and the influence of ozone on climate

1. Geomagnetic field – origin, spatial-temporal structure and variability 2. Variations and co-variation in paleoclimate and paleomagnetic field 3. Current understanding about the factors driving Clime variability 4. Contemporary evidence for an existing relation between geomagnetic and climatic parameters 5. Galactic cosmic rays and solar particles in the Earth’s atmosphere 6. Energetic particles’ impact on the near tropopause ozone and water vapour 7. Mechanisms for the geomagnetic influence on climate 8. Concluding remarks