Low cloud properties influenced by cosmic rays

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 23, 2000, Pages 5004-5007

  Marsh, Nigel D ^a   Svensmark, Henrik ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COSMIC RAYS; IONIZATION; OZONE; THERMAL EFFECTS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

MICROPHYSICAL MECHANISM; SOLAR MODULATED COSMIC RAY; SOLAR VARIABILITY;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0034430062     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5004     Document Type: Article

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