Climate responses to SATIRE and SIM-based spectral solar forcing in a 3D atmosphere-ocean coupled GCM | Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars and Resulting Influences on their Environments

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Issue		J. Space Weather Space Clim. Volume 7, 2017 Brightness Variations of the Sun and Sun-like Stars and Resulting Influences on their Environments


Article Number		A11
Number of page(s)		14
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2017009
Published online		19 April 2017

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