Evaluation of cloud amount trends and connections to large scale dynamics

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 4069-4073

  Eills, Todd D ^a,b   Stephens, Graeme L ^a   Thompson, David W J ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD AMOUNT (CA); EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENT (ERBE); INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECT (ISCCP); LONG WAVES (LW);

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 2442449243     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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