Chemical and dynamical response to the 11-year variability of the solar irradiance simulated with a chemistry-climate model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Egorova, T ^a,b   Rozanov, E ^a,b   Manzini, E ^c   Haberreiter, M ^a,d   Schmutz, W ^a   Zubov, V ^e   Peter, T ^b  

^a WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e VOEIKOV MAIN GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE; IONOSPHERE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPICS;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; SOLAR CYCLES; SOLAR IRRADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERIC CIRCULATION;

SOLAR RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; IRRADIANCE; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 18544410072     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl019294     Document Type: Article

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