Global atlas of relative cloud cover, 1967-70
Subtitle: based on data from meteorological satellites
By: [by Donald B. Miller and Robert G. Feddes]
Contributors: Feddes, Robert G., joint author.; United States. National Environmental Satellite Service.; USAF Environmental Technical Applications Center.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Clouds -- Atlases.; Clouds -- Photographs from space.
Description: The atlas was prepared from data acquired during the period January 1, 1967, through December 31, 1970. Picture signals were computer processed to prepare hemispheric charts of monthly, seasonal, semiannual, and annual charts of relative cloud cover, in octas, over both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Similar presentations of tropical cloudiness are included. This atlas is one of the first attempts to use satellite data in the preparation of a climatology of daytime cloudiness over the globe. (Author).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 7-8.
"A joint production: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite Service [and] United States Air Force, Air Weather Service (MAC), USAF Environmental Technical Applications Center."