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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Atmos Chem Phys. 2018 Dec 6;18(23):17325–17354. doi: 10.5194/acp-18-17325-2018

Table 4.

Sampled cirrus cloud frequency of occurrence for each 30-degree latitude zone, and also for the entire globe (last line) during 2008 and 2013.

Occurrence of selected conditions (%) during 2008 (Dec 2007 to Nov 2008)
DJF MAM JJA SON
60N-82N 0.49 0.2 0.21 0.22
30N-60N 0.74 0.96 0.60 0.73
0N-30N 1.58 1.90 2.02 1.70
30S-0S 1.58 1.46 0.75 1.07
60S-30S 0.25 0.39 0.47 0.36
82S-60S 0.16 0.19 0.31 0.72
Full globe 0.81 0.86 0.73 0.80
Occurrence of selected conditions (%) during 2013 (March 2013 to Feb 2014)
DJF MAM JJA SON
60N-82N 0.61 0.31 0.16 0.24
30N-60N 0.90 0.98 0.56 0.65
0N-30N 1.43 1.82 1.86 1.76
30S-0S 1.58 1.47 0.79 1.05
60S-30S 0.30 0.36 0.46 0.35
82S-60S 0.09 0.20 0.42 0.61
Full globe 0.82 0.86 0.71 0.78