Enhanced solar global irradiance during cloudy sky conditions

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 295-303

  Schade, Nils H ^a   Macke, Andreas ^b   Sandmann, H ^a   Stick, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLEAR SKY; CUMULUS; IRRADIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; NORTH FRISIAN ISLANDS; NORTH SEA; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; SYLT;

EID: 34548119127     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2007/0206     Document Type: Article

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