Significant changes between the ISCCP C and D cloud climatologies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 4193-4196

  Doutriaux Boucher, Marie ^a   Sèze, Geneviève ^b  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; OPTICAL DEPTH; PRESSURE;

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD DATA; CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD TYPES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; TOTAL CLOUD COVER;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS;

CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY; TOTAL CLOUD COVER;

EID: 0032534158     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900081     Document Type: Article

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