Validation of modelled cloudiness using satellite-estimated cloud climatologies

Karl-Göran Karlsson

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v48i5.12206

Validation of modelled cloudiness using satellite-estimated cloud climatologies

Tellus

Volume 48 (1996): Issue 5

By: Karl-Göran Karlsson

Open Access

|Jan 1996

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