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Solar Forcing of Global Change

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The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate

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To reduce uncertainties in anthropogenically forced global change superimposed on natural climate variability, knowledge of changing solar radiative output, a primary natural forcing agent, is essential. Estimates of past solar forcing are derived from radiometric measurements and empirical models of contemporary solar irradiance variations. Implications for global change are discussed.

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  1. Naval Research Laboratory, E. O. Hulburt Center for Space Research, Washington, DC, 20375, USA

    Judith Lean

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  1. CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, 5, place Jules Janssen, F-92195, Meudon, France

    Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes

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Lean, J. (1994). Solar Forcing of Global Change. In: Nesme-Ribes, E. (eds) The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate. NATO ASI Series, vol 25. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79257-1_10

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