An Eight-Year (1987-1994) Time Series of Rainfall, Clouds, Water Vapor, Snow Cover, and Sea Ice Derived from SSM/I Measurements

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 891-905

  Ferraro, Ralph R ^a,c   Weng, Fuzhong ^a,b   Grody, Norman C ^a   Basist, Alan ^c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; RADIATION; RAINFALL FREQUENCY; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SSM/I; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES; WATER VAPOUR;

USA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSISSIPPI VALLEY;

EID: 0030425367     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0891:AEYTSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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