Year-round observation of longwave radiative flux divergence in Greenland

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1469-1479

  Hoch, Sebastian W ^a,b   Calanca, P ^a   Philipona, R ^c   Ohmura, A ^a  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FOG; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; DIURNAL CYCLE; LONGWAVE RADIATIVE FLUX DIVERGENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

BOUNDARY LAYER; COOLING; DATA SET; FOG; LONGWAVE RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATIVE FORCING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 35548970210     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2542.1     Document Type: Article

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