Importance of aerosols in satellite-derived estimates of surface shortwave irradiance over China

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Hayasaka, Tadahiro ^a   Kawamoto, Kazuaki ^a   Shi, Guangyu ^b   Ohmura, Atsumu ^c  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PYRANOMETER MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE-DERIVED DATA; SUB-CLOUD LAYER; SURFACE SHORTWAVE IRRADIANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CLOUD; IRRADIANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 33646440481     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025093     Document Type: Article

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