Temporal derivative of Total Solar Irradiance and anomalous Indian summer monsoon: An empirical evidence for a Sun-climate connection

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1980-1987

  Agnihotri, Rajesh ^a,b   Dutta, Koushik ^c   Soon, Willie ^d  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Indian monsoon; Temporal derivative of TSI; Total Solar Irradiance (TSI); Tropical precipitation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON; INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON RAINFALL; INTERDECADAL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TEMPORAL DERIVATIVES; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE; TROPICAL PRECIPITATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79961020600     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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