Solar-Terrestrial Influences on Weather and Climate: Proceedings of a Symposium/Workshop held at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow, The Ohio State Unive [Paperback]

This book contains most of the invited papers and contributions pre? sented at the Symposium/Workshop on Solar-Terrestrial Influences on Weather and Climate which was held at The Ohio State University on 24-28 July 1978. The authors and publisher have made a special effort for rapid publi? cation. The length of the individual papers in this book were delib? erately limited by the editors. Direct financial support for the Symposium/Workshop was provided by NASA. Palo Alto Billy M. McCormac Columbus Thomas A. Seliga January 1979 xiii SYMPOSIUH/WORKSHOP CONCLUSIONS Billy M. McCormac Department 52-l0/B202 Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory 3251 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA Thomas A. Seliga Atmospheric Sciences Program The Ohio State University 2015 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 USA A. INTRODUCTION The Symposium/Workshop on Solar-Terrestrial Influences on Weather and Climate was held at The Ohio State University on 24-28 July 1978. Its purpose was to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research results and ideas regarding the question whether variations in solar outputs affect terrestrial weather and cli? mate and, if so, to what extent and through what mechanisms. The Sym? posium focused on the results of previous studies and consisted of both invited and contributed papers. The Workshop, on the other hand, built upon these deliberations to develop ideas and directions for future research. Over one hundred persons from eight countries attended the Symposium/ Workshop.Symposium/Workshop Conclusions.- Introductory Review of Solar-Terrestrial Weather and Climate Relationships.- The Enigma of Drought - A Challenge for Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Research.- Solar Input to the Terrestrial System.- Analysis of Regression Methods for Solar Activity Forecasting.- Variations in the Solar Constant Caused by Changes in the Active Features on the Sun.- The Variability and Absolute Magnitude of Solar Spectral Irradiance.- l#'