A decade of the moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer: Is a solar-cloud link detectable?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4430-4440

  Laken, Benjamin ^a   Pallé, Enric ^a   Miyahara, Hiroko ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloud cover; Cloud forcing; Cloud retrieval; Satellite observations; Solar cycle; Trends

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD FORCING; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOLAR CYCLE; TRENDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; RADIOMETERS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; IRRADIANCE; MODIS; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR CYCLE; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865167626     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00306.1     Document Type: Article

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