Direct radiometric observations of the water vapor greenhouse effect over the equatorial pacific ocean

Science

Volumn 275, Issue 5307, 1997, Pages 1773-1776

  Valero, Francisco P J ^a   Collins, William D ^a   Pilewskie, Peter ^b   Bucholtz, Anthony ^a   Flatau, Piotr J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INFRARED RADIATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CLEAR SKY; GCM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SST; WATER VAPOUR;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0030620921     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5307.1773     Document Type: Article

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