Longwave radiation on snow-covered mountainous surfaces

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 818-824

  Plüss, Christian ^a   Ohmura, Atsumu ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENTS; LONGWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 0031395661     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-36.6.818     Document Type: Article

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