We announce the C23.01 update of
Improved modeling of cloudy-sky actinic flux using satellite cloud retrievals: Cloudy-Sky Actinic Flux
- PAR ID:
- 10023022
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Volume:
- 44
- Issue:
- 3
- ISSN:
- 0094-8276
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 1592 to 1600
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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