Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 951-970

  Scafetta, Nicola ^a,b  

^a Active Cavity Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM) Lab   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Modeling; Planetary motion; Solar variability

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL ORIGIN; CLIMATE CHANGE MODELING; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; COLLECTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION; COMBINED EFFECT; COUPLED OSCILLATORS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; GLOBAL SURFACE TEMPERATURE; JUPITERS; ORBITAL PERIODS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; PLANETARY MOTION; POWER-SPECTRA; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL WARMING; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SYNCHRONIZATION;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

EID: 77954960180     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.04.015     Document Type: Article

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