1988/12/01 by Stephen G. Warren, Carole J. Hahn, J. London +2 · 3 citations
Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Atmospheric aerosols and clouds #Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Cloud cover #Cloud computing #Environmental science #Climatology #Meteorology #Atmospheric sciences #Geography #Geology #Computer science
paper · doi:10.2172/5415329
openalex publication_date 1988/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
This is the fourth of a series of atlases to result from a study of the global cloud distribution from ground-based observations. The first two atlases (NCAR/TN-201+STR and NCAR/TN-241+STR) described the frequency of occurrence of each cloud type and the co-occurrence of different types, but included no information about cloud amounts. The third atlas (NCAR/TN-273+STR) described, for the land areas of the earth, the average total cloud cover and the amounts of each cloud type, and their geographical, diurnal, seasonal, and interannual variations, as well as the average base heights of the low clouds. The present atlas does the same for the ocean areas of the earth.