Changes in monthly mean clod amount over China [electronic resource] : A closer look.
Clouds play a primary role in governing the heat balance of the earth-atmosphere system. Analysis of historical cloudiness data is important in attempts to understand the nature of past climate changes and potential future changes. The studies by Kaiser (1993) and Kaiser and Vose (1994) (hereafter r...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Energy Research ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy,
1997.
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| Summary: | Clouds play a primary role in governing the heat balance of the earth-atmosphere system. Analysis of historical cloudiness data is important in attempts to understand the nature of past climate changes and potential future changes. The studies by Kaiser (1993) and Kaiser and Vose (1994) (hereafter referred to as KKV) do show some evidence of significant regional and seasonal changes. In KKV, monthly records of cloud amount from 60 stations, made available to the US Department of Energỳs (DOÈs) Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) through an agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) were analyzed for trends over the period 1954--88. Since the work of KKV, much more historical weather data have been made available to CDIAC via a recently established research agreement between DOE and the Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA). Here the authors use some of these data to take a closer look at cloudiness changes over China in recent decades. |
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| Item Description: | Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. 02/01/1997. "CONF-970239--1" "DE97000028" 77. meeting of the American Meteorological Society. 8th symposium on global change studies, Long Beach, CA (United States), 4 Feb 1997. Kaiser, D.P.; Vose, R.S. |
| Physical Description: | 7 p. |