Is there evidence for sunspot forcing of climate at multi-year and decadal periods?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2006, Pages

  Moore, John ^a   Grinsted, Aslak ^a,b   Jevrejeva, Svetlana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOPHYSICS; OSCILLATIONS; PLANETS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION (AO); QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION (QBO); SOLAR CYCLE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX (SOI);

SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DECADAL VARIATION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IRRADIANCE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SOLAR CYCLE; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; SUNSPOT; WAVELET;

EID: 33845615828     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026501     Document Type: Article

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