Average Cloudiness in the Tropics from Satellite Observations /

Since January, 1965, weather satellites have made pictures at least once a day of the whole earth. Although at first the information was used primarily to help day-to-day weather forecasting, enough data has now accumulated for scientists to begin climatological studies in a new and serious way. Thi...

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Autor principal: Sadler, James C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2021]
Colección:International Indian Ocean Expedition Meteorological Monographs
Temas:
SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgment
  • Contents
  • Abstract
  • PART 1: Introduction
  • I. PREVIOUS WORK
  • II. ADVENT OF METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES
  • PART 2: Data
  • III. SOURCE AND CODING
  • IV. EXTRACTION AND AVERAGING
  • V. VOLUME AND DISTRIBUTION
  • VI. ANALYSIS (Plates I-XII)
  • PART 3: Discussion
  • VII. GLOBAL AND HEMISPHERIC CLOUDINESS
  • VIII. DISTRIBUTION OF CLOUDINESS (Plates I-XII)
  • IX. MERIDIONAL PROFILES OF ZONAL AVERAGES
  • X. COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS CLIMATOLOGY
  • XI. COMPARISON WITH RAINFALL AVERAGES
  • XII. CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • Notes and References
  • Plates

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