Absorption of solar energy in cloudless and cloudy atmospheres over Germany and in GCMs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 959-962

  Wild, M ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; SOLAR RADIATION;

BUDGET CONTROL; RADIATION EFFECTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ABSORPTION OF SOLAR RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET EXPERIMENTS; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCM);

EID: 0034353199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011144     Document Type: Article

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