El Niño induced anomalies in global data sets of total column precipitable water and cloud cover derived from GOME on ERS-2

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 1-18

  Wagner, Thomas ^a   Beirle, S ^a   Grzegorski, M ^a   Sanghavi, S ^a   Platt, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; EL NINO; ERS-2; GOME; PRECIPITABLE WATER;

EID: 25844524418     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD005972     Document Type: Article

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