Satellite-inferred overall global cloud patterns generally corroborate those derived from ground-based observations. Both show significant differences of cloudiness between the two hemispheres and over extended land as compared with ocean areas. However, the averaged latitudinal values of surface-based observed cloud amounts are about 10 percent higher than those derived from Nimbus-7 observations. The largest difference (10-20 percent) is in the subtropics of each hemisphere and at subpolar and polar latitudes during the summer. The difference in reported average global total cloud amounts is about 10 percent.
The global distribution of observed cloudiness - A contribution to the ISCCP
Advances in Space Research ; 9 , 7 19
1989-01-01
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Cloudiness and radiation budget of the atmosphere from ISCCP data sets
Elsevier | 1987
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