A note on the statistical evidence for an influence of geomagnetic  activity on Northern Hemisphere seasonal-mean stratospheric temperatures using the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

Tartaglione, Nazario; Toniazzo, Thomas; Orsolini, Yvan; Otterå, Odd Helge

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-545-2020

Articles | Volume 38, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-545-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-545-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 38, issue 2

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21 Apr 2020

Regular paper |

| 21 Apr 2020

A note on the statistical evidence for an influence of geomagnetic activity on Northern Hemisphere seasonal-mean stratospheric temperatures using the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis

Nazario Tartaglione, Thomas Toniazzo, Yvan Orsolini, and Odd Helge Otterå

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Final revised paper (published on 21 Apr 2020)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee Comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Jan 2020
- RC3: 'Referee Comment - Correction', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Jan 2020
  - AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Nazario Tartaglione, 12 Feb 2020
  - AC3: 'reply to C2 point', Nazario Tartaglione, 20 Feb 2020
RC2: 'Review comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Jan 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Nazario Tartaglione, 12 Feb 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Feb 2020) by Petr Pisoft

AR by Nazario Tartaglione on behalf of the Authors (18 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 Mar 2020) by Petr Pisoft

AR by Nazario Tartaglione on behalf of the Authors (24 Mar 2020)

Short summary

It is often claimed that a relationship between atmospheric temperature and geomagnetic activity exists. The aim of this paper is to highlight how the use of statistical tests, used to establish such a relationship, can be prone to misinterpretation when temporal and spatial autocorrelations are not taken into account. When these autocorrelations are considered, the relationship between temperature and geomagnetic activity no longer exists.