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Rossow 1993

Rossow, W.B., 1993: Satellite observation of radiation and clouds to diagnose energy exchanges in the climate: Part II. In Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System. E. Raschke and D. Jacob, Eds., NATO ASI Series I: Global Environmental Change, vol. 5, Springer-Verlag, pp. 143-164, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-76957-3_6.

Since the early part of this century, we have had a fairly accurate idea of the variations of cloud cover among different climate zones, except for the more remote portions of the tropical and southern oceans and polar regions. Standardization of cloud classification for surface weather observers after the Second World War has also provided a long record of changing cloud morphological types. However, quantitative information on the physical properties of clouds has been lacking, particularly for those properties that determine their influence on radiative energy exchanges. Recent analyses of satellite datasets, particularly by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP), are providing the first global surveys of some of these cloud properties. The results presented below come from ISCCP.

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@inproceedings{ro00500s,
  author={Rossow, W. B.},
  editor={Raschke, E. and Jacob, D.},
  title={Satellite observation of radiation and clouds to diagnose energy exchanges in the climate: Part II},
  booktitle={Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System},
  year={1993},
  volume={5},
  pages={143--164},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  address={Berlin},
  series={NATO ASI Series I: Global Environmental Change},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-642-76957-3_6},
}

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TY  - CPAPER
ID  - ro00500s
AU  - Rossow, W. B.
ED  - Raschke, E.
ED  - Jacob, D.
PY  - 1993
TI  - Satellite observation of radiation and clouds to diagnose energy exchanges in the climate: Part II
BT  - Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System
T3  - NATO ASI Series I: Global Environmental Change
VL  - 5
SP  - 143
EP  - 164
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-642-76957-3_6
PB  - Springer-Verlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  -

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