Diurnal variations of cloud cover and their relationship to climatological conditions

Journal of Climate

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 2802-2820

  Bergman, John W ^a   Salby, Murry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLOUD COVER; DIURNAL VARIATION; ISCCP;

EID: 0030392920     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1996)009<2802:DVOCCA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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