Global distribution of Earth's surface shortwave radiation budget

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2847-2867

  Hatzianastassiou, N ^a,b   Matsoukas, C ^b,c   Fotiadi, A ^b   Pavlakis, K G ^b,d   Drakakis, E ^b,d   Hatzidimitriou, D ^b,c   Vardavas, I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; RADIATION BUDGET; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 27844520381     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-5-2847-2005     Document Type: Article

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