Insight: diurnal temperature ranges unaffected by cosmic ray changes

06/01/2014

Benjamin Laken (SO Postdoc) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and Jaša Čalogović of the Hvar Observatory in Croatia have investigated the claims of a Serbian research group who presented evidence that the difference between maximum and minimum daily surface temperatures – the diurnal temperature range – responds to changes in the cosmic ray flux. The main conclusions of this study are also reported in a news article on IOP Science.