Analysis of total cloud amount over China, 1951-1994

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 3599-3602

  Kaiser, Dale P ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA REDUCTION; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TOTAL CLOUD AMOUNT;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 0032194089     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL52784     Document Type: Article

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