Variations of galactic cosmic rays and the Earth's climate

Solar Journey: The Significance of Our Galactic Environment for the Heliosphere and Earth

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 349-397

  Kirkby, Jasper ^a   Carslaw, Kenneth S ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cosmic ray cloud climate mechanisms; galactic cosmic rays; global electric circuit; ice nucleation; ion induced nucleation; palaeoclimate; solar irradiance; Solar cosmic ray climate variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879238712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4557-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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