Cloud modulation of surface solar irradiance at a pasture site in Southern Brazil

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-129

  Gu, Lianhong ^a,c   Fuentes, Jose D ^a   Garstang, Michael ^a   Silva, Julio Tota Da ^b   Heitz, Ryan ^a   Sigler, Jeff ^a   Shugart, Herman H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud gap effect; Convective regime; Kolmogorov power law; Solar irradiance; Tropical clouds; Turbulence diffusion regime

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; IRRADIANCE; PASTURE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0035956662     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(00)00209-4     Document Type: Article

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