Entering the era of 130-year satellite cloud climatologies: A North American case study

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 6687-6697

  Foster, Michael J ^a   Heidinger, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS;

CLIMATE MONITORING; CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD FEEDBACKS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NORTH AMERICAN; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; STATE CLUSTERING; WEATHER PATTERNS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84906871572     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00068.1     Document Type: Article

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