The Earthshine Project: Update on photometric and spectroscopic measurements

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 288-292

  Palle E ^a   Montanes Rodriguez P ^a   Goode, P R ^a   Qiu, J ^a   Yurchyshyn, V ^a   Hickey, J ^b   Chu, M C ^c   Kolbe, E ^d   Brown, C T ^e   Koonin, S E ^d  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Clouds; Earthshine; Photometric measurements; Spectrometric measurements

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOMETRY; REFLECTION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

EARTH'S CLIMATE; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

SPACE RESEARCH;

ALBEDO; PHOTOMETER; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 3042694268     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2003.01.027     Document Type: Article

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