Recent trends in arctic surface, cloud, and radiation properties from space

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5613, 2003, Pages 1725-1728

  Wang, Xuanji ^a   Key, Jeffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Office of Research and Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COOLING; RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SATELLITE-DERIVED CLOUDS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; CIRCULATION; CLOUD; COOLING; RADIATION BALANCE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING;

ALGORITHM; ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; CLOUD; COOLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FALLING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPACE; SPRING; SUMMER; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS; WARMING; WINTER;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0037436498     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078065     Document Type: Article

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