Surface temperature sensitivities from cloud cover variations in the Hummel-Kuhn radiative-convective model with three different cloud approximations

John R. Hummel

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v33i5.10733

Surface temperature sensitivities from cloud cover variations in the Hummel-Kuhn radiative-convective model with three different cloud approximations

Tellus

Volume 33 (1981): Issue 5

By: John R. Hummel

Open Access

|Jan 1981

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