Observations of the diurnal cycle of outgoing longwave radiation from the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget instrument

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Comer, Ruth E ^a   Slingo, Anthony ^a   Allan, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; METEOSAT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF GUINEA;

EID: 34548029964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028229     Document Type: Article

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