Solar activity and the mean global temperature

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Erlykin, A D ^a   Sloan, T ^b   Wolfendale, A W ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COSMIC RAYS; GLOBAL WARMING; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; CYCLIC COMPONENTS; CYCLIC VARIATIONS; FUNCTION OF TIME; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 67650239490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/014006     Document Type: Article

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