AVHRR warm-season cloud climatologies under various synoptic regimes across the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1984-2002

  Azorin Molina, Cesar ^a   Vicente Serrano, Sergio M ^a   Chen, Deliang ^b   Connell, Bernadette H ^c   Domínguez Durán, María Ángeles ^d   Revuelto, Jesus ^a   López Moreno, Juan Ignacio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands; NOAA AVHRR; Synoptic regimes; Warm season cloud climatologies

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BOUNDARY LAYERS; LANDFORMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NOAA AVHRR; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; SYNOPTIC REGIMES;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 84939467469     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.4102     Document Type: Article

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