An assessment of thermal, wind, and planetary wave changes in the middle and lower atmosphere due to 11-year UV flux variations.

A two-dimensional radiative equilibrium calculation with fixed dynamic heating is used to calculate variations in atmospheric temperature due to solar UV flux variations which are assumed to be associated with the 11-year solar cycle. For all cases the results suggest that the tropospheric and lower stratospheric changes associated with the altered planetary wave configurations and caused by long-term UV flux changes would be small and difficult to detect. Middle and upper stratospheric effects, however, are larger and should be discernible given a long enough series of meteorological data. -from Authors