The distribution of solar energy at the earth's surface as calculated in the ECMWF Re-analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 4373-4376

  Wild, Martin ^a   Ohmura, Atsumu ^a   Gilgen, Hans ^a   Morcrette, Jean Jacques ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALCULATIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; SURFACE INSOLATION CLIMATOLOGY; ACCURATE PERFORMANCE; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURES; LONG TERM MONITORING; SURFACE INSOLATION; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

SOLAR ENERGY; QUALITY CONTROL;

CLIMATE; LAND SURFACE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 0033489822     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900175     Document Type: Article

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