The Role of the Sun in Climate Change

by Douglas V. Hoyt, Kenneth H. Shatten, Kenneth H. Schatten

The luminosity of the sun governs the temperatures of the planets. Yet the solar forcing, or driving, of climate, primarily due to changes in solar radiation, has never been well documented. Recent satellite measurements have shown that solar radiation varies as a function of time and wavelength, a concept that has been hypothesized for the past two centuries and has recently become a major topic with all the attention paid to global warming. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509414X
• ISBN13: 9780195094145
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"