Calibration and data elaboration procedure for sky irradiance measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 896-907

  Boi, Paolo ^a   Tonna, Glauco ^b   Dalu, Giuseppe ^b   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^c   Olivieri, Bruno ^b   Pompei, Alberto ^a   Campanelli, Monica ^b   Rao, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DATA ELABORATION PROCEDURE; DATA INVERSION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SKY IRRADIANCE MEASUREMENTS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0033585786     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000896     Document Type: Article

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