JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL PHYSICS, cilt.72, sa.18, ss.1379-1386, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)
By applying multitaper methods and Pearson test on the surface air temperature and flare index used as a proxy data for possible solar sources of climate-forcing, we investigated the signature of these variables on middle and high latitudes of the Atlantic-Eurasian region( Turkey, Finland, Romania, Ukraine, Cyprus, Israel, Lithuania, and European part of Russia). We considered the temperature and flare index data for the period ranging from January 1975 to the end of December 2005, which covers almost three solar cycles, 21st, 22nd, and23rd.