Warm water vapour pixels over high clouds as observed by METEOSAT

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-21

  Tjemkes, S A ^a   Van De Berg, L ^a   Schmetz, J ^a  

^a Europ Organ Exploitation MS   (Germany)

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