Are some clouds obscured in satellite view?

Romanian Reports of Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 225-229

  Voiculescu, Mirela ^a   Usoskin, Ilya ^b   Georgescu, Lucian Puiu ^a  

^a DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate; Cloud cover; Solar terrestrial relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649528187     PISSN: 1221146X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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