Sunshine duration climatology and trends in association with other climatic factors over India for 1970-2006

Mausam

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 437-454

  Jaswal, A K ^a  

^a Ministry of Earth Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Correlation coefficient; Rainy days; Sunshine duration; Total cloud amount; Trends; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955675363     PISSN: 02529416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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