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Science 14 July 1978:
Vol. 201. no. 4351, pp. 150 - 151
DOI: 10.1126/science.201.4351.150
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Efficiency of Convection and Time Variation of the Solar Constant

DAVID S. P. DEARBORN 1 and MICHAEL J. NEWMAN 2

1 W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91125, and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
2 W. K. Kellogg Radiation Laboratory and Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Munich, West Germany

Variations in the efficiency of convection resulting from its stochastic nature could be manifested as small (lsim1 percent) fluctuations in the solar constant. This could result in changes in the earth's climate with time scales of decades to centuries.

Submitted on January 27, 1978
Revised on March 28, 1978


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