The response of the middle atmosphere to solar cycle forcing in the Hamburg Model of the neutral and ionized atmosphere

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 125, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 345-356

  Schmidt, H ^a   Brasseur, G P ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemistry climate modeling; Middle atmosphere; Solar cycle

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC IONIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHEMISTRY CLIMATE MODELING; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; SOLAR CYCLE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 33847295294     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-006-9068-z     Document Type: Article

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