Solar forcing of winter climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 753-757

  Ineson, Sarah ^a   Scaife, Adam A ^a   Knight, Jeff R ^a   Manners, James C ^a   Dunstone, Nick J ^a   Gray, Lesley J ^b   Haigh, Joanna D ^c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; CORRELATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RADIATION BALANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WINTER;

CANADA; EUROPE;

EID: 80455124006     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1282     Document Type: Article

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