Urban effects on low-level clouds around the Tokyo metropolitan area on clear summer days

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Inoue, Tadao ^a   Kimura, Fujio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDFORMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; SATELLITE IMAGES;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD COVER; METROPOLITAN AREA; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN AREA;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; KANTO; TOKYO [KANTO]; TOKYO [TOKYO (PRF)];

EID: 2442417629     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003gl018908     Document Type: Article

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