Diurnal variability of cloudiness over East Asia and the western Pacific ocean as revealed by GMS during the warm season

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 675-684

  Asai, Tomio ^a,d   Ke, Shizhao ^b   Kodama, Yasu Masa ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology   (China)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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EID: 0040427829     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj1965.76.5_675     Document Type: Article

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