Study reveals impact of solar flares in the clouds – Prensa Latina

August 26, 2016, 16:09 Washington, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) A research over a quarter century showed that variations in solar activity affect the abundance clouds in the atmosphere.

the research, conducted by the Technical University of Denmark (UTD), reveals that although solar flares are known to protect the atmosphere from cosmic rays, global cloud cover is reduced by that activity, but the work confirms that cosmic rays are important for the formation of clouds

According to the study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics solar flares cause a reduction cloud fraction of about two percent, corresponding to approximately one billion tons of liquid water esfumada the atmosphere.

the main author of exploration, Jacob Svensmark, UTD, said the earth is under constant bombardment of particles from space called galactic cosmic rays.

in this regard, he recalled that violent eruptions in the area of ​​the surface of the sun can expel those cosmic rays reaching the earth for about a week.

therefore, he added, when cosmic rays are reduced in this way, a corresponding decrease in cloud cover of our planet occurs.

And, of course, as the clouds are important in controlling the temperature on Earth factor, the results of this analysis may have implications for climate change, he said.

in conceptualizing a solar flare, the experts defined as a sudden, rapid and intense variation in brightness observed on the Sun’s surface due to an explosion of hot gases.

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