How does the Sun's spectrum vary?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2555-2560

  Lean, Judith L ^a   DeLand, Matthew T ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Solar cycle

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES; INFRARED SPECTRAL; MODEL CALCULATIONS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR FEATURES; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR RADIATION AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; SOLAR SPECTRUM; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE; ULTRA-VIOLET;

CLIMATE CHANGE; OPTICS; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

SATELLITE MISSION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84856849239     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00571.1     Document Type: Article

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