Cloud variability as revealed in outgoing infrared spectra: Comparing model to observation with spectral EOF analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Huang, Xianglei ^a   Farrara, John ^b   Leroy, Stephen S ^c   Yung, Yuk L ^a   Goody, Richard M ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOUD VARIABILITY; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INFRARED SPECTRUM; RADIANCE SPECTRA; SYNTHETIC SPECTRA; WESTERN PACIFIC WARM POOL;

CLIMATE MODELS;

EID: 0037092280     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014176     Document Type: Article

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