On the parameterization of the radiative properties of broken clouds

Johannes Schmetz

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v36i5.11644

On the parameterization of the radiative properties of broken clouds

Tellus

Volume 36 (1984): Issue 5

By: Johannes Schmetz

Open Access

|Jan 1984

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