Eight years of high cloud statistics using HIRS

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 170-184

  Wylie, Donald P ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMISSION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSPARENCY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED RADIATION SOUNDERS (HIRS);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; SEASONALITY; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033011825     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.170     Document Type: Article

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