Climatic Response to Solar Activities and Galactic Cosmic Ray in Southern Nigeria from 2010 to 2019

U.I. Chibuogwu¹ , T.N. Obiekezie² , K.C. Chidiobi³ , B.A. Ibenchenjo⁴ , S.C. Onyejemeni⁵ , O. Nwachukwu⁶ , H.I. Ikeri⁷

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Vol.9 , Issue.6 , pp.37-43, Dec-2021

Online published on Dec 31, 2021

Copyright © U.I. Chibuogwu, T.N. Obiekezie, K.C. Chidiobi, B.A. Ibenchenjo, S.C. Onyejemeni, O. Nwachukwu, H.I. Ikeri . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
This study investigate the climatic response to solar activities and galactic cosmic ray in Awka Southern Nigeria. The climatic parameters and the solar activities indicators spans from 2010 to 2019 and they include Maximum Temperature, Minimum Temperature, Relative Humidity and Rainfall for the climatic parameter while the solar indicator includes Sunspots Number, F10.7cm solar flux and Galactic Cosmic Ray. The data obtained where analyzed using statistical methods. The result shows that the temperature parameters relates positively to solar activities and negatively to the galactic cosmic rays while rainfall relate positively to galactic cosmic rays and negatively to solar activities

Key-Words / Index Term :
Solar Activities, Climatic Parameters, Solar Indicators, and Galactic Cosmic Rays

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