Global cloud height fluctuations measured by MISR on Terra from 2000 to 2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Davies, Roger ^a   Molloy, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

ANNUAL MEAN; CLOUD HEIGHTS; EFFECTIVE HEIGHT; GLOBAL CLOUDS; HEIGHT ANOMALY; INDONESIA; INTEGRATED EFFECTS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SAMPLING ERRORS; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION INDEX; STEREO MEASUREMENTS; TELECONNECTIONS; TERRA SATELLITES; MISR;

EARTH SCIENCES;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; GLOBAL CHANGE; LA NINA; MISR; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STEREO IMAGE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TERRA (SATELLITE); CLIMATE FEEDBACK; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

INDONESIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (CENTRAL);

NIA;

EID: 84856734757     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050506     Document Type: Article

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