Recent variations of cloudiness over Russia from surface daytime observations

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Chernokulsky, A V ^a   Bulygina, O N ^b   Mokhov, I I ^a  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b World Data Center   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

cloudiness changes; convective and stratiform clouds; regional and seasonal features

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053518152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/035202     Document Type: Article

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