Recent oppositely directed trends in solar climate forcings and the global mean surface air temperature

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 463, Issue 2086, 2007, Pages 2447-2460

  Lockwood, Mike ^a,b   Fröhlich, Claus ^c  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic climate change; Solar variability and climate; Solar terrestrial physics

Indexed keywords

EID: 36148942466     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.1880     Document Type: Article

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