A correlation between visual observations and instrumental records of cloudiness in Mexico

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 421-424

  Tejeda, Adalberto ^a   Vargas, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Point cloudiness; Sunshine estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3743088259     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22201/igeof.00167169p.1996.35.4.535     Document Type: Article

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