  It has been proposed that cosmic ray events could have a causal relationship
with cloud formation rates. Given the weak constraints on the role that cloud
formation plays in climate forcing it is essential to understand the role such
a relationship could have in shaping the Earth's climate. This issue has been
previously investigated in the context of the long-term effect of cosmic ray
events on climate. However, in order to establish whether or not such a
relationship exists, measurements of short-timescale solar events, individual
cosmic ray events, and spatially correlated cloud parameters could be of great
significance. Here we propose such a comparison using observations from a pair
of radio telescopes arrays, the Long Wavelength Array (LWA) and the
Eight-meter-wavelength Transient Array (ETA). These low-frequency radio arrays
have a unique ability to simultaneously conduct solar, ionospheric and cosmic
rays observations and are thus ideal for such a comparison. We will outline
plans for a comparison using data from these instruments, satellite images of
cloud formation as well as expected cloud formation rates from numerical
models. We present some preliminary results illustrating the efficacy of this
type of comparison and discuss future plans to carryout this program.
