Temperature response in the Altai region lags solar forcing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Eichler, Anja ^a,b   Olivier, Susanne ^a,b,c   Henderson, Keith ^a   Laube, Andreas ^a   Beer, Jürg ^d   Papina, Tatyana ^e   Gäggeler, Heinz W ^a,b   Schwikowski, Margit ^a,b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Kantonales Laboratorium   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^e INSTITUTE FOR WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATIONS; EARTH'S CLIMATES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; ICE CORES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RECORDS; SOLAR ACTIVITIES; SOLAR FORCING; STRONG CORRELATIONS; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE PROXIES; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE VARIATION; ICE CORE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALTAY; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 62749198134     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035930     Document Type: Article

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