Cosmic rays and climate of the Earth: Possible connection

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 441-450

  Usoskin, Ilya G ^a   Kovaltsov, Gennady A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Changements climatiques terrestres; Cosmic rays' changes; Cosmic rays climate link; Donn es exp rimentales; Experimental data; Liaison rayonnement cosmique climat; Mod lisation; Modelling; Terrestrial climate changes; Variation du rayonnement cosmique

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; COSMIC RAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SOLAR RADIATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 47749145370     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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