A survey of changes in cloud cover and cloud types over land from surface observations 1971–96

From a dataset of weather observations from land stations worldwide, about 5400 stations were selected as having long periods of record with cloud-type information; they cover all continents and many islands. About 185 million synoptic reports were analyzed for total cloud cover and the amounts of n...

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Main Authors: Stephen G. Warren, Ryan, M. Eastman, Carole J. Hahn
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.469.3901
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ignatius/CloudMap/Publications/WarrenEtal2007_CloudSurvey.pdf