Solar and anthropogenic forcing of tropical hydrology

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Shindell, Drew T ^a   Faluvegi, Greg ^a   Miller, Ron L ^a   Schmidt, Gavin A ^a   Hansen, James E ^a   Sun, Shan ^a  

^a Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; OZONE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPICS;

COUPLED OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE-COMPOSITION MODEL; IRRADIANCE; SOLAR VARIATIONS; TROPOPAUSE REGION;

METEOROLOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHT; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MONSOON; OZONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 34548019713     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027468     Document Type: Article

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