Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-191-2011
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-11-191-2011
Research article
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11 Jan 2011
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2011

Global analysis of cloud field coverage and radiative properties, using morphological methods and MODIS observations

R. Z. Bar-Or, O. Altaratz, and I. Koren

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