Long-term global distribution of Earth's shortwave radiation budget at the top of atmosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1217-1235

  Hatzianastassiou, N ^a,b   Fotiadi, A ^b   Matsoukas, C ^b   Pavlakis, K G ^b   Drakakis, E ^b,d   Hatzidimitriou, D ^b,c   Vardavas, I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

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EID: 4744370862     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-4-1217-2004     Document Type: Article

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