Improved entrance optic for global irradiance measurements with a brewer spectrophotometer

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3516-3521

  Gröbner, Julian ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETER;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0037703753     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003516     Document Type: Article

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