(1) Columbia University & NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 10025 New York, USA;(2) UN Outer Space Office, Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria;(3) Motjärnshytten 44, S-68391 Hagfors, Sweden
Abstract:
The Sun is forced into an orbit around the barycenter of the solar system because of the changing mass distributions of the planets. Solar-planetary-lunar dynamic relationships may form a new basis for understanding and predicting cyclic solar forcing functions on the Earth's climate.