Could a future "grand Solar Minimum" like the Maunder Minimum stop global warming?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1789-1793

  Meehl, Gerald A ^a   Arblaster, Julie M ^a,b   Marsh, Daniel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

grand solar minimum; Maunder Minimum; solar variability; Sun's effects on Earth's climate

Indexed keywords

DECADAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EARTH'S CLIMATE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE; WHOLE ATMOSPHERE COMMUNITY CLIMATE MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DECADAL VARIATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRADIANCE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; OZONE; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84879084666     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50361     Document Type: Article

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