An assessment of satellite surface radiation products for highlands with Tibet instrumental data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Yang, Kung ^a   Koike, Toshio ^a   Stackhouse, Paul ^b   Mikovitz, Colleen ^c   Cox, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

HIGHLANDS; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURFACE RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DIURNAL VARIATION; ELEVATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 34548574761     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027640     Document Type: Article

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