A general model to estimate hourly and daily solar radiation for hydrological studies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Yang, Kun ^a   Koike, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SNOW; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER PROCESSES; SNOWMELTING MODELS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RADIATION BUDGET; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 28244470375     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR003976     Document Type: Article

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