Comparison of temporal cloud variability simulated by a GCM with observations from the Nimbus-7 satellite

Atmosfera

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-21

  Argete, Amador ^a,b   Simmonds, Ian ^a,c  

^a University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Graduate School   (Philippines)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD CHARACTERISTICS; CLOUD VARIABILITY; GCM SIMULATION; GLOBAL CLOUD DISTRIBUTION; METHOD COMPARISON; SATELLITE OBSERVATION;

EID: 0029767342     PISSN: 01876236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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