Variation of surface air temperatures in relation to El Niño and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions, 1796-1882

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1307-1319

  Wilson, Robert M ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033512753     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(99)00055-3     Document Type: Article

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