Seasonal cycle of cloud cover analyzed using Meteosat images

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 331-341

  Massons, J ^a   Domingo, D ^a   Lorente, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cloud cover; Meteosat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042130843     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-998-0331-3     Document Type: Article

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