Diurnal variation of California coastal stratocumulus from two days of boundary layer soundings

Alan K. Betts

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v42i2.11879

Diurnal variation of California coastal stratocumulus from two days of boundary layer soundings

Tellus

Volume 42 (1990): Issue 2

By: Alan K. Betts

Open Access

|Jan 1990

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