Solar variability and climate change: geomagnetic aa index and global surface temperature

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1035-1038

  Cliver, E W ^a   Boriakoff, V ^a,c   Feynman, J ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOMAGNETISM; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH (PLANET); GREENHOUSE GASES; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MAUNDER MINIMUM GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR FORCING; CYCLIC COMPONENTS; GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SOLAR VARIABILITY AND CLIMATE; TEMPERATURE CORRELATION; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS;

SOLAR RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE;

AA INDEX; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; SOLAR FORCING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032049008     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00499     Document Type: Article

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