Total and partial cloud amount detection during summer 2005 at Westerland (Sylt, Germany)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1143-1150

  Schade, N H ^a   MacKe, A ^b   Sandmann, H ^a   Stick, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CIRRUS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; COASTAL ZONE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SUMMER;

FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; SYLT;

EID: 77950229114     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-1143-2009     Document Type: Article

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