caa a22 4500 46907633X CHVBK 20180323132936.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02507767 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02507767 Njau E. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italia aut Sun-controlled spatial and time-dependent cycles in the climatic/weather system [Elektronische Daten] [E. Njau] Summary: We show, on the basis of meteorological records, that certain spatial and time-dependent cycles exist in the earth-atmosphere system (EAS). These cycles seem to be associated with sunspot cycles and hence have been referred to in the text as "data-derived solar cycles”. Our analysis establishes three important characteristics of the data-derived solar cycles (DSC's). Firstly the crests and troughs of these data-derived solar cycles are mostly latitudinally aligned and have (zonal) spatial wavelengths greater than about 7 degrees of longitude. Secondly the DSC's have periods mostly lying between 6 and 12 years. In certain stations, some DSC's coincide quite well with the corresponding sunspot cycles. Thirdly the crests and troughs of the DSC's drift eastwards at speeds exceeding about 1.5 longitude degrees per year. Furthermore, these DSC's display peak-to-peak amplitudes of about 2°C along East Africa. On the basis of earlier work and bearing in mind the considerable temperature-dependence of the stratospheric ozone layer, we predict the existence of latitudinally aligned enhancement and depletion structures (corresponding to the DSC's) in the stratospheric ozone layer over nonpolar regions. These structures apparently connect the two polar ozone holes. Società Italiana di Fisica, 1992 Meteorology nationallicence Il Nuovo Cimento C Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/1(1992-01-01), 17-23 0390-5551 15:1<17 1992 15 11543 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02507767 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02507767 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Njau E. International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Il Nuovo Cimento C Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/1(1992-01-01), 17-23 0390-5551 15:1<17 1992 15 11543 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer