A new SATIRE-S spectral solar irradiance reconstruction for solar cycles 21-23 and its implications for stratospheric ozone

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4086-4101

  Ball, William T ^a   Krivova, Natalie A ^b   Unruh, Yvonne C ^a   Haigh, Joanna D ^a   Solanki, Sami K ^b,c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Irradiance; Ozone; Solar cycle; Spectral analysis models distribution; Stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; OZONE LAYER; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

IRRADIANCE; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS/MODELS/DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE; TOTAL AND SPECTRAL SOLAR IRRADIANCES; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; IRRADIANCE; MESOSPHERE; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84908435241     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0241.1     Document Type: Article

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