The Sun's total irradiance: Cycles, trends and related climate change uncertainties since 1976

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4377-4380

  Fröhlich, Claus ^a   Lean, Judith ^b  

^a WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETRY; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SUN; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SUNS TOTAL IRRADIANCE; GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR CYCLE LENGTHS; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR VARIABILITY AND CLIMATE; SPACE-BASED;

SOLAR RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; IRRADIANCE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

EID: 0033489831     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900157     Document Type: Article

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