Friday 1 February 2008

Sun cycles and jet streams

Recent studies show El Nino cycles to be in line with the Sun's cycles. NOAA's latest research shows a 4-6 year El Nino oscillation which is in perfect rhythm with the Sun's 11 year solar cycle. Solar cycle is 4-6 years to "maximum" and 4-6 years "minimum". El Nino and La Nina are driven by "jet streams". Jet streams drive ocean currents. Shifting ocean currents cause "extreme weather".
ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) is a coupled ocean-atmosphere effect that has a sweeping influence on weather around the world. Scientists found that during El Nino winters, the position of the jet stream is altered from its normal position and, in the U.S., storm activity tends to be more intense in several regions: the West Coast, Gulf States and the Southeast.
A just released study by NOAA , University of Colorado at Boulder lead researcher Amy Solomon, and CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences), has confirmed this integral connection between ocean and jet stream currents perpetrated by charged particles.Researcher Amy Solomon says: "Earlier climate studies suggest that the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which affects weather around the world, evolves independently of interannual-to-decadal North Pacific Ocean climate variability. Our study shows that the two are really quite connected through a large-scale 'atmosphere-ocean tropical-subtropical feedback loop.' In other words shifting jet streams dictate shifting ocean currents.Solomon's study is the first to separate feedbacks one at a time in an atmosphere-ocean coupled model. Through this process, Solomon and her colleagues found a clear extra-tropical signal in the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle.
NOAA/Solomon's study suggests the mechanism that connects the two latitudinal regions is an ocean subduction zone, around 30 degrees North, where water sinks and moves south until it rises again at the equator. The subduction is caused by wind stress where the tropical easterlies meet the mid-latitude westerlies."When we didn't allow the northern Pacific to interact with the equatorial Pacific area, we observed a sharp 2-year ENSO cycle, with El Ninos happening every other year, which is not what we see in real life. By adding in the extra-tropical feedback, we produced a more realistic 4-6 year ENSO cycle, with El Ninos occurring every few years," explained Solomon.NOAA's and Solomon's team as outlined above - shows their equation to match with solar cycles. It takes 4-6 years to reach solar "maximum", and 4-6 years to reach solar "minimum".
So what is driving the ocean currents to shift, which is what we know as Southern Oscillation? Simply put - 'shifting ocean currents'. But what causes the shifting of ocean currents? Well, it appears to be winds. Not just jet stream winds, but also 'solar winds'. What has been found is when the Earth's magnetic field shifts, it simultaneously causes a shift in ocean and jet streams. How is the Sun causing the ocean currents to shift? Turns out it's the Sun's impact on the Earth's magnetic field that has a causal effect on the Earth's ocean currents. So could this be the driving force behind shifting ocean currents? Batross reported "Complex and distorted magnetic fields travel with the CME cloud and sometimes interact with the Earth's own magnetic field to pour tremendous amounts of energy into the space near Earth." End result: turbulence in the atmosphere and water.

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