Trends in low and high cloud boundaries and errors in height determination of cloud boundaries

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1941-1947

  Chernykh, Irina V ^a   Alduchov, Oleg A ^a   Eskridge, Robert E ^b,c  

^a Russ Res Inst H   (Russian Federation)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0042526858     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<1941:TILAHC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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