Cloud albedo control by cloud-top entrainment

Howard P. Hanson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v43i1.11914

Cloud albedo control by cloud-top entrainment

Tellus

Volume 43 (1991): Issue 1

By: Howard P. Hanson

Open Access

|Jan 1991

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