Has solar variability caused climate change that affected human culture?

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1173-1180

  Feynman, Joan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change and variability; Climatology; Impacts of global change; Regional climate change; Solar variability impact

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE AND VARIABILITY; IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE; REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE; SOLAR VARIABILITY IMPACT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 34548711278     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.077     Document Type: Article

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