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A GREAT deal of attention has been focused on the subject of Sun–weather relationships1,2. There is a clear need for physical processes and hypotheses to be brought forward and tested in this area. I propose here two theoretical schemes to account for some of the observed correlations; one is a physical argument suggested earlier3, and expanded here, that the weather may generate electrical effects in the ionosphere (which may in turn affect the magnetopause), and the other is an hypothesis that the total emissivity of the Sun (both particles and electromagnetic radiation) remains constant. I investigate the possible consequences of this hypothesis.
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COLE, K. Physical argument and hypothesis for Sun–weather relationships. Nature 260, 229–230 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/260229a0
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