Workshop Presentations - The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth's Climate - page 23

FIGURE 2.8 Composite averages for December-January-February for peak solar years (a,b). Observed, bottom-up
coupled air-sea mechanism only (c,d); top-down stratospheric-ozone mechanism only (e,f); and both bottom-up and
top-down mechanism (g,h). SOURCE: G.A. Meehl, J.M. Arblaster, K. Matthes, F. Sassi, and H. van Loon,
Amplifying the Pacific climate system response to a small 11 year solar cycle forcing, Science 325:1114-1118,
2009; reprinted with permission from AAAS.