A high-quality monthly total cloud amount dataset for Australia

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 485-517

  Jovanovic, Branislava ^a   Collins, Dean ^a   Braganza, Karl ^a   Jakob, Doerte ^a   Jones, David A ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLOUD AMOUNT; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; DATA SETS; DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; HIGH QUALITY; INHOMOGENEITIES; LONG-TERM CHANGES; LONG-TERM TREND; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; RAINFALL VARIATION; ROBUST NETWORK; SEASONAL TRENDS; SUMMER MONTHS;

METADATA; RAIN; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL; STATISTICAL TESTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAINFALL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER STATION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80052947561     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9992-5     Document Type: Article

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