Evidence for a link between the flux of galactic cosmic rays and Earth's climate during the past 200,000 years

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 313-322

  Christl, M ^a   Mangini, A ^a   Holzkamper S ^a   Spotl C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Causality problem; Cosmic rays; Magnetic field; Orbital forcing; Paleoclimate; Speleothems

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY; MAGNETIC FIELD; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; SPELEOTHEM;

EID: 1542290640     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2003.12.004     Document Type: Article

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