Annual Climatology of the Diurnal Cycle on the Canadian Prairies

We show the annual climatology of the diurnal cycle, stratified by opaque cloud, using the full hourly resolution of the Canadian Prairie data. The opaque cloud field itself has distinct cold and warm season diurnal climatologies; with a near-sunrise peak of cloud in the cold season and an early aft...

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Main Authors: Alan K Betts, Ahmed B Tawfik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/feart.2016.00001/full