solar chromospere; sun-climate connection; terrestrial middle atmosphere; solar irradiance; solar physics; solar corona
Sukhodolov Timofei, Usoskin Ilya, Rozanov Eugene, Asvestari Eleanna, Ball William T., Curran Mark A. J., Fischer Hubertus, Kovaltsov Gennady, Miyake Fusa, Peter Thomas, Plummer Christopher, Schmutz Werner, Severi Mirko, Traversi Rita (2017), Atmospheric impacts of the strongest known solar particle storm of 775 AD, in
Scientific Reports, 7, 45257-45257.
Sukhodolov Timofei, Rozanov Eugene, Ball William T., Peter Thomas, Schmutz Werner (2017), Modeling of the middle atmosphere response to 27-day solar irradiance variability, in
Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 152-153, 50-61.
Ball William T., Kuchař Aleš, Rozanov Eugene V., Staehelin Johannes, Tummon Fiona, Smith Anne K., Sukhodolov Timofei, Stenke Andrea, Revell Laura, Coulon Ancelin, Schmutz Werner, Peter Thomas (2016), A mid-latitude stratosphere dynamical index for attribution of stratospheric variability and improved ozone and temperature trend analysis, in
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 1-20.
Ball William T., Kuchař Aleš, Rozanov Eugene V., Staehelin Johannes, Tummon Fiona, Smith Anne K., Sukhodolov Timofei, Stenke Andrea, Revell Laura, Coulon Ancelin, Schmutz Werner, Peter Thomas (2016), An upper-branch Brewer–Dobson circulation index for attribution of stratospheric variability and improved ozone and temperature trend analysis, in
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(24), 15485-15500.
Fröhlich Claus (2016), Determination of time-dependent uncertainty of the total solar irradiance records from 1978 to present, in
JSWSC, 6, A18-A18-p11.
Ball W. T., Haigh J. D., Rozanov E. V., Kuchar A., Sukhodolov T., Tummon F., Shapiro A. V., Schmutz W. (2016), High solar cycle spectral variations inconsistent with stratospheric ozone observations, in
Nature Geoscience, 9(3), 206-209.
Hansteen V., Guerreiro N., Pontieu B. De, Carlsson M. (2015), NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF CORONAL HEATING THROUGH FOOTPOINT BRAIDING, in
The Astrophysical Journal, 811(2), 106-106.
Guerreiro N., Haberreiter M., Hansteen V., Schmutz W. (2015), SMALL-SCALE HEATING EVENTS IN THE SOLAR ATMOSPHERE. I. IDENTIFICATION, SELECTION, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CORONAL HEATING, in
Jo, 813(1), 61-61.
Sukhodolov T., Rozanov E., Shapiro A. I., Anet J., Cagnazzo C., Peter T., Schmutz W. (2014), Evaluation of the ECHAM family radiation codes performance in the representation of the solar signal, in
Geoscientific Model Development, 7(6), 2859-2866.
Rouze M., Hauchecorne A., Hochedez J.F., Irbah A., Meftah M., Corbard T., Turck-Chieze S., Boumier P., Dewitte S., Schmutz W. (2014), The PICARD Scientific Mission: status of the program, in
13th International Conference on Space Operations 5-9 May 2014, Pasadena, CAAmerican Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, VA USA.
Ball William T., Schmutz Werner, Fehlmann André, Finsterle Wolfgang, Walter Benjamin, Assessing the beginning to end-of-mission sensitivity change of the PREcision MOnitor Sensor total solar irradiance radiometer (PREMOS/PICARD), in
Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate.
Sukhodolov Timofei, Rozanov Eugene, Ball William, Bais Alkiviadis, Tourpali Kleareti, Shapiro Alexander, Telford Paul, Smyshlyaev Sergey, Fomin Boris, Sander Rolf, Bossay Sébastien, Bekki Slimane, Marchand Marion, Chipperfield Martyn P., Dhomse Sandip, Haigh Joanna D., Peter Thomas, Schmutz Werner, Evaluation of the simulated photolysis rates and their response to solar irradiance variabilityMiddle atm. photolysis rate modelling, in
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Research at the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos and World Radiation Center, PMOD/WRC, is connected to solar radiation in all aspects: From manufacturing space and ground based instruments that measure radiation to the interpretation of the influence of solar radiation on the terrestrial radiation energy budget. The here proposed research projects are aimed at understanding the influence of the Sun on the terrestrial climate. From the point of view of the space-based research, the most interesting aspect is that the radiance output of the Sun itself is variable. The goal of solar physics research at PMOD/WRC is therefore, to measure these variations, in particular in the UV and EUV, to advance our understanding of the origin of these variations, and to evaluate the impact of the solar variability on the terrestrial climate.This proposal asks for a continuation of the long-term SNSF support of the exploitation of measurements obtained by space experiments that have been built at PMD/WRC. The proposal comprises three subprojects:A) Quality assurance and calibration of the measurement from active space experiments. The oldest still active space experiment, VIRGO on SoHO, was launched in 1995. PROBA2 with our experiment LYRA started 2. November 2009, and the launch of PICARD with our experiment PREMOS occurred 27. June 2010. Thus, the PMOD/WRC takes care of three PMOD/WRC experiments that will continue to be operational during the funding period of this proposal. We ask for travel funding to support the operation of the experiments and the dissemination of the data at international conferences;B) Preparation for scientific exploitation of Solar Orbiter/SPICE and EUI observations. The involvement of the PMOD/WRC in building hardware for the Solar Orbiter experiments EUI and SPICE implies that research at PMOD/WRC has to re-focus on the solar corona. We use existing MHD simulations provided by the group of Prof. Carlsson from the University of Oslo, to calculate the emergent EUV line fluxes from the MHD model simulations. We will compare the results to SUMER/SoHO observations, which has a EUV line coverage that addresses the same physical processes as will be done by SPICE on Solar Orbiter, except that the latter will have a much better spatial resolution. We aim at understanding the role of the magnetic field on the frequency and characteristics of small heating events and we will evaluate the contribution of the small heating events to the heating of the corona;C) Scientific exploitation of LYRA/PROBA2 and PREMOS/PICARD data. The first step of subproject C is to improve the modules that are relevant to the response of the middle atmosphere to solar UV variability and in addition, we will replace the present GCM model core ECHAM-5 and adapt the newly available ECHAM-6. The new model version will be used to simulate the response of the middle atmosphere to intensive short-term solar UV perturbations as well as to the variability of SSI during solar rotation cycles. The model results will be compared to data from Earth observing satellites in order to understand the processes that are responsible for the solar influence on the middle atmosphere and to elucidate the role of different atmospheric variability modes on solar rotation time scale and solar cycle time scale.