An assessment of the solar irradiance record for climate studies

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kopp, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Energy balance; Global change; Sun; Total irradiance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901305210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21157251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2014012     Document Type: Article

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