Diurnal variation of outgoing longwave radiation associated with high cloud and UTH changes from Meteosat-5 measurements

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 109-119

  Chung, Eui Seok ^a   Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Schmetz, Johannes ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DIURNAL VARIATION; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; METEOSAT; SOLAR RADIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 70349743689     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-009-0041-8     Document Type: Article

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