Interactions between land cover and convective cloud cover over Midwestern North America detected from GOES satellite data

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1149-1181

  O'Neal M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE CLOUD COVER; FOREST; GOES; LAND COVER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE;

NORTH AMERICA;

AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INFRARED IMAGING; MAPS; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS; WIND;

AIRFLOW; FOREST; LAND COVER; MIDWESTERN NORTH AMERICA; SURFACE FRONTAL ACTIVITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TREES; VEGETATION ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 0029667636     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608949075     Document Type: Article

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