Cosmic ray decreases and changes in the liquid water cloud fraction over the oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Laken, Benjamin ^a   Wolfendale, Arnold ^b   Kniveton, Dominic ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; COSMIC RAY INTENSITY; FORBUSH DECREASE; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; LIQUID WATER CLOUDS;

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIQUIDS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

LASER FUSION;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD WATER; COSMIC RAY; MODIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ZONATION;

EID: 72049118821     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040961     Document Type: Article

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