The influence of spectral solar irradiance data on stratospheric heating rates during the 11 year solar cycle

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Oberlnder, S ^a   Langematz, U ^a   Matthes, K ^a,b   Kunze, M ^a   Kubin, A ^a   Harder, J ^c   Krivova, N A ^d   Solanki, S K ^d,e   Pagaran, J ^f   Weber, M ^f  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^e Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEATING RATE; OZONE; SOLAR ENERGY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

11-YEAR SOLAR CYCLE; DATA SETS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL SIMULATIONS; OZONE CONCENTRATION; RADIATION PARAMETERIZATION; SHORT WAVES; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR FLUX; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR MINIMA; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE SIGNAL;

HEATING;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; HEATING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EID: 84855374085     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049539     Document Type: Article

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