Solar irradiance, cosmic rays and cloudiness over daily timescales

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 24, 2011, Pages

  Laken, Benjamin A ^a   Čalogović, Jasa ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; SOLAR ENERGY;

CLIMATE FORCINGS; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD VARIABILITY; DETECTABILITY; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE; ULTRA-VIOLET;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CLOUD COVER; COSMIC RAY; RADIATION BALANCE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84855386925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049764     Document Type: Article

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