Testing the proposed causal link between cosmic rays and cloud cover

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Sloan, T ^a   Wolfendale, A W ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clouds; Cosmic rays; Global warming

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GLOBAL WARMING; IONIZATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

CLOUD COVER; CONFIDENCE LEVELS; COSMIC RAY INTENSITY; INFRARED DATA; LARGE PARTS; LOW-LEVEL CLOUD COVERS; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR MODULATION;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 46749130228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/2/024001     Document Type: Review

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