Ground-based and satellite observations of cloud fields in the Netherlands

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1914-1923

  Feijt, Arnout ^a   Van Lammeren, André ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0000061640     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1996)124<1914:gbasoo>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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