Claim of solar influence is on thin ice: Are 11-year cycle solar minima associated with severe winters in Europe?

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Van Oldenborgh, G J ^a   De Laat, A T J ^a   Luterbacher, J ^b   Ingram, W J ^c,d   Osborn, T J ^e  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

11 year cycle solar minimum; North Atlantic Oscillation; severe European winter; solar variability; sunspot numbers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATIONS; SEVERE EUROPEAN WINTER; SOLAR MINIMA; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SUNSPOT NUMBER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

DATA SET; FREEZING; ICE; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; RECONSTRUCTION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WINTER;

EUROPE; GERMANY; RHINE RIVER;

EID: 84880584731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024014     Document Type: Article

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