Time-varying biases in U.S. total cloud cover data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2838-2849

  Free, Melissa ^a   Sun, Bomin ^b  

^a NOAA Air Resources Laboratory Silver Spring   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SURFACE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; CLOUD OBSERVATIONS; DIURNAL TEMPERATURE RANGES; FRACTIONAL CLOUD COVER; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; HOMOGENEITY TESTING; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES;

OCEAN ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DIURNAL VARIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891638673     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00026.1     Document Type: Article

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