Interannual variability of the global radiation budget

Journal of Climate

Volumn 22, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 4893-4907

  Kato, Seiji ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMICAL PROCESS; GLOBAL RADIATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; IRRADIANCE STANDARDS; LONG WAVES; LONG-WAVE EMISSIONS; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MERIDIONAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; POLAR REGIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; THERMODYNAMIC ENERGY; TIME-SCALES; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TRANSPORT ENERGY; WEIGHTED MEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BUDGET CONTROL; CLOUDS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SOLAR RADIATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALBEDO; ANNUAL VARIATION; EL NINO; LA NINA; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 70350004104     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI2795.1     Document Type: Article

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