Evaluation of the applicability of solar and lamp radiometric calibrations of a precision sun photometer operating between 300 and 1025 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 3923-3941

  Schmid, Beat ^a,b   Ingold, Thomas ^a   Maätzler, Christian ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a   Spyak, Paul R ^c,d   Biggar, Stuart F ^c   Wehrli, Christoph ^e   Sekler, Jörg ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Hughes Missile Systems Company   (United States)

^e WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^f CSEM   (Switzerland)

^g Ingenieurschule Bern   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000782841     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.003923     Document Type: Article

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