The ARM Mobile Facility and its first international deployment: Measuring radiative flux divergence in West Africa

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1229-1244

  Miller, Mark A ^a   Slingo, Anthony ^b  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT; CLOUD RADAR;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 34548646927     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-88-8-1229     Document Type: Article

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