Celestial climate driver: A perspective from four billion years of the carbon cycle

Geoscience Canada

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 13-28

  Veizer, Ján ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONDENSATION; COSMIC RAYS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ISOTOPES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI (CCN); COSMIC RAY FLUX (CRF); ENERGETIC PARTICLES; WATER VAPOUR FEEDBACK;

CARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSMIC RAY; GREENHOUSE GAS; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 27744500116     PISSN: 03150941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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