One of my major research interests are astronomical influences on Earth's climate, in particular the relationship between solar variability and climate changes.
Recent research highlights
February 2013: New paper: On the relation between solar activity and clear-sky terrestrial irradiance published in Solar Physics Preprint. See also my terrestrial irradiance page.
April 2011: No evidence for a strong effect of solar activity on terrestrial insolation
March 2010: How would a new grand minimum of solar activity affect the future climate?
Publications related to the Sun-climate connection
Peer-reviewed publications
- Feulner G., 2013: On the relation between solar activity and clear-sky terrestrial irradiance, Solar Physics, 282 (Issue 2, February 2013), 615-627. doi:10.1007/s11207-012-0129-z Preprint
- Feulner G., 2011: Comment on "Strong signature of the active Sun in 100 years of terrestrial insolation data" by W. Weber, Annalen der Physik, 523 (Issue 11, November 2011), 946-950. doi:10.1002/andp.201100179
- Feulner G., 2011: Are the most recent estimates for Maunder Minimum solar irradiance in agreement with temperature reconstructions?, Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (Issue 16, August 2011), L16706. doi:10.1029/2011GL048529
- Feulner G., 2011: The Smithsonian solar constant data revisited: no evidence for a strong effect of solar activity in ground-based insolation data, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11 (Number 7, April 2011), 3291-3301. doi:10.5194/acp-11-3291-2011
- Feulner G., Rahmstorf S., 2010: On the Effect of a
New Grand Minimum of Solar Activity on the Future Climate on Earth,
Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (March 2010), L05707. doi:10.1029/2010GL042710
Highlighted in: Nature, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Reports Climate Change, Eos
Other publications
- Goldberg R.A., Schatten K.H., Feulner G., 2011: Upper Atmosphere. In: Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root, Michael D. Mastrandrea (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199765324, Volume 3, Pages 214-220.
- MacGregor K.B., Feulner G., 2011: Solar Wind. In: Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root, Michael D. Mastrandrea (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199765324, Volume 3, Pages 97-102.
- Bell P.R., Feulner G., 2011: Moon. In: Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root, Michael D. Mastrandrea (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780199765324, Volume 2, Pages 308-309.
- Feulner G., 2011: Book Review: Carolus J. Schrijver, George L. Siscoe (Eds.): Heliophysics. Three volumes: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos - Space Storms and Radiation: Causes and Effects - Evolving Solar Activity and the Climates of Space and Earth, Sterne & Weltraum, 50 (No. 3, March 2011), 108.