Direct solar spectral irradiance and transmittance measurements from 350 to 2500 nm

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 3483-3494

  Kindel, Bruce C ^a,b   Qu, Zheng ^a,b   Goetz, Alexander F H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Geological Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPACITY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

SOLAR SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 0037825696     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.003483     Document Type: Article

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