Absorption of insolation by land surfaces with sparse vertical protrusions

Joseph Otterman

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v35i5.14621

Absorption of insolation by land surfaces with sparse vertical protrusions

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 35 (1983): Issue 5

By: Joseph Otterman

Open Access

|Jan 1983

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