Radiation budget estimates over Africa and surrounding oceans: Inter-annual comparisons

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2617-2629

  Rehouma, A Ben ^a   Viollier, M ^a   Desbois, M ^a  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIMULATION;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34249104501     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-2617-2007     Document Type: Article

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