Variations of solar coronal hole area and terrestrial lower tropospheric air temperature from 1979 to mid-1998: Astronomical forcings of change in earth's climate?

New Astronomy

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 563-579

  Soon, W ^a   Baliunas, S ^a   Posmentier, E S ^b   Okeke, P ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

92.70.Gt; 94.10.Dy; 96.40. z; 96.60.Wh; Solar wind; Solar terrestrial relations; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: magnetic fields; Sun: particle emission

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000317864     PISSN: 13841076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1384-1076(00)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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