Amplifying the pacific climate system response to a small 11-year solar cycle forcing

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5944, 2009, Pages 1114-1118

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^a,b   Matthes, Katja ^c,d   Sassi, Fabrizio ^e   Van Loon, Harry ^a,f  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f Colorado Research Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CYCLE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LATITUDE; OZONE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; OZONE DEPLETION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR ENERGY; STRATOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 69549084859     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172872     Document Type: Article

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