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Have Solar-Irradiance Variations Influenced Climate?

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The Solar Engine and Its Influence on Terrestrial Atmosphere and Climate

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Abstract

In the past two years we published two papers in Nature which examined the issue of whether or not putative solar-irradiance variations have influenced the earth’s observed surface temperatures during the past 130 years (Schlesinger and Ramankutty, 1992, 1994). Here we summarize the approach and findings of these papers.

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  1. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 105 South Gregory Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Michael E. Schlesinger & Navin Ramankutty

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

    Elizabeth Nesme-Ribes

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Schlesinger, M.E., Ramankutty, N. (1994). Have Solar-Irradiance Variations Influenced Climate?. 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_31

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