Climate hypersensitivity to solar forcing?

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 583-588

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

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (climatology, general or miscellaneous); Solar physics, astrophysics, and astronomy (ultraviolet emissions)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005555090     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-000-0583-z     Document Type: Article

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