Persistent solar signatures in cloud cover: Spatial and temporal analysis

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Voiculescu, M ^a   Usoskin, I ^b  

^a DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate variability; clouds; cosmic rays; solar climate; UV irradiance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS;

CLIMATE VARIABILITY; COHERENCE ANALYSIS; REGIONAL LEVELS; SOLAR SIGNALS; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SOLAR-CLIMATE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UV IRRADIANCES;

COSMIC RAYS;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; COSMIC RAY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; IONIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84867757361     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044004     Document Type: Article

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