Estimation of daily surface solar exposure using GMS-5 stretched-VISSR observations: The system and basic results

Australian Meteorological Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 263-278

  Weymouth, G T ^a   Le Marshall, J F ^a  

^a BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

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