Model calculations of solar spectral irradiance in the 3.7-μm band for earth remote sensing applications

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 124-134

  Platnick, Steven ^a   Fontenla, Juan M ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOTE SENSING;

CLOUD PARTICLE SIZE RETRIEVALS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); MODERATE SPECTRAL RESOLUTION ATMOPSHERIC TRANSMITTANCE (MODTRAN); SOLAR SPECTRAL IRRADIANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

AVHRR; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IRRADIANCE; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 40449102245     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1571.1     Document Type: Article

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