you can answer «no», not if the question is «can the sun be
affected by the solar system».
Not exact matches
Several factors
affect these cycles, but they are ultimately determined
by orbital forcing — the Sun's radiation received
by the Earth due to variations in the Earth's orbit in the
solar system.
In addition, tidal forces
affecting the Oort Cloud come from the differential gravitational forces exerted
by stars in the Milky Way's galactic disk and
by the galactic core on the Sun and comets as a result of their relative location in the
Solar System, which have been modelled with numerical simulations (Duncan et al, 1987).
Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined
by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate
system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed
by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can
affect ENSO, in examining the role of
solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
Both wind and
solar availability are
affected by the moving
systems; averaging across the United States makes the fractional variability much smaller.
I maintain that our climate is mostly
affected by that enormous fusion reactor at the center of the
Solar System.
Until the rest of natural climate variability is understood and incorporated into the process of understanding how the weather works, and the climate is
affected by the rest of the
solar system, and its interactions with the rest of the galaxy, the background senseless chatter will fall on deaf ears.
Many believe that increased water vapor,
solar variations in radiation and magnetic flux, our relative position in the
solar system, the tilt of our planet's axis, the clearing of our atmosphere of pollutants which allows more sunlight to reach the ground, or our position in the Milky Way galaxy that
affects the amount of radiation reaching our atmosphere and
affecting cloud formation, are also important and are not (and can not be yet) adequately considered in the computer models used
by the IPCC consensus.
The changes in the rate of outgoing energy flow caused
by changes in
solar surface turbulence may be small but they appear to be enough to
affect the air circulation
systems and thereby influence the overall global energy budget disproportionately to the tiny variations in
solar power intensity.
To understand the underlying physical mechanisms
by which
solar variability
affects climate, as well as to assess the relative strengths of
solar variability versus greenhouse gases, requires computer models of Earth's climate
system.