27-day variation in cloud amount in the Western Pacific warm pool region and relationship to the solar cycle

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1577-1584

  Takahashi, Y ^a   Okazaki, Y ^b   Sato, M ^a   Miyahara, H ^c   Sakanoi, K ^d   Hong, P K ^c   Hoshino, N ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KOMAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; FOURIER TRANSFORM; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUNSPOT; TROPOSPHERE; WARM POOL;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 76749167036     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-1577-2010     Document Type: Article

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