Trends in solar radiation due to clouds and aerosols, southern India, 1952-1997

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1505-1518

  Biggs, Trent W ^a,b,c   Scott, Christopher A ^a,d   Rajagopalan, Balaji ^c   Turral, Hugh N ^e  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INTERA INCORPORATED   (United States)

^c University of Colorado   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Climate change; Gobal dimming; Radiation; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLOUDINESS MEASUREMENT; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AEROSOL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATA SET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADIATION BUDGET; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KRISHNA RIVER; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 34548598663     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1487     Document Type: Article

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