Variations in global cloud cover and the fair-weather vertical electric field |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, UK;2. MS WT15, Center for Space Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, 800 W Campbell Rd., Richardson, TX 75080-3021, USA;3. Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Hwy, Kingston, TAS 7050, Australia;4. Physics Department, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-5005, USA;5. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia;1. Yale University, Geology and Geophysics, New Haven, CT, United States;2. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States;1. Space Research Institute of RAS, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow 117997, Russia;2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskiy per., Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region 141700, Russia |
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| Abstract: | Statistically significant (at the 95% significance level) changes in daily cloud cover are found to occur globally over land coincident with extreme increases in ‘fair-weather’ measurements of vertical electric field (Ez) measured at Vostok, Antarctica. Using global cloud products from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) D1 data series, superposed epoch analyses were made of both increases and decreases in Ez. Field significance testing revealed that, both before and after extreme increases in Ez, significant absolute cloud cover changes (of 13–15%) occur in the tropics and high latitudes. While the linkages in the tropics may reflect changes in the main convective cloud generators of current flow in the global circuit, the linkages at high latitudes appear to represent responses of clouds to the current flow. This linkage offers a possible explanation of a possible solar–terrestrial climate amplification mechanism. |
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