Arguments against a physical long-term trend in global ISCCP cloud amounts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Evan, Amato T ^a   Heidinger, Andrew K ^b   Vimont, Daniel J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOLAR HEATING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELS; PLANETARY ALBEDO;

CLOUDS;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; CLOUD COVER; GEOMETRY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HEATING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 34347272145     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028083     Document Type: Article

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