Regional climate impacts of a possible future grand solar minimum

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ineson, Sarah ^a   Maycock, Amanda C ^b,c   Gray, Lesley J ^c   Scaife, Adam A ^a   Dunstone, Nick J ^a   Harder, Jerald W ^d   Knight, Jeff R ^a   Lockwood, Mike ^e   Manners, James C ^a   Wood, Richard A ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRRADIANCE; MAUNDER MINIMUM; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; GREENHOUSE GAS; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

EURASIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84932637661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8535     Document Type: Article

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