World-Wide Effects of Continuous Emission of Cosmic Rays from the Sun

The Carnegie Institution barometric pressure-corrected, cosmic-ray, meson intensity data for solar time daily variation at Huancayo, Cheltenham, and Christchurch have been harmonically analyzed. Time-series covering the period 1937 to 1946 have been derived for variations of the amplitude and hour of maximum of the meson diurnal variation. These reveal that the amplitude and hour of maximum undergo large long-term world-wide changes. The time-series for mean of the diurnal amplitude observed at the three stations has high positive partial correlations with relative sunspot number and American magnetic character figure. The correlations are higher during years of low sunspot activity.The new evidence confirms earlier experimental findings of the authors indicating that the barometric pressure-corrected, meson intensity, diurnal variation is caused by an anisotropy of the primary cosmic rays connected with the emission of high energy charged particles from the sun. In addition, it reveals that the sun is a continuous source of cosmic radiation, the activity of emission varying broadly in step with the solar cycle.