TITLE:
Solar Activity and Meteorological Fluctuations in West Africa: Temperatures and Pluviometry in Burkina Faso, 1970-2012
AUTHORS:
Jean-Louis Zerbo, Frédéric Ouattara, Emmanuel Nanéma
KEYWORDS:
Solar Activity; Temperatures; Precipitations; Cloud Cover; Solar Cycle
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Vol.3 No.4,
December
2,
2013
ABSTRACT: In this paper we investigate the fluctuations of solar
activity and their links with climatic parameters in West Africa. We achieve
our research by investigating several data plotted using averages. Mean to our results we can assume that
active solar is associated with weak incident cosmic ray consequently with low
cloudiness which brings warming. Likewise, quiet solar is associated with
important cloud cover and consequently brings important
precipitations and chills terrestrial atmosphere. This implies the necessity to
deal with space phenomenon by considering the severe interconnection between
solar activity indices for interplanetary and earth environment weather
forecasting.