Cloud optical thickness variations during 1983-1991: solar cycle or ENSO?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1415-1417

  Kuang, Zhiming ^a   Jiang, Yibo ^a   Yung, Yuk L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS;

CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; GLOBAL CLOUDINESS; HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED RADIATION SOUNDER (HIRS); SOLAR CYCLE; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS);

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD; EL NINO/SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; OPTICAL THICKNESS; SOLAR CYCLE;

EID: 0347462799     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00471     Document Type: Article

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