Reconstruction of the solar spectral UV irradiance for nowcasting of the middle atmosphere state on the basis of LYRA measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2965-2973

  Egorova, T ^a   Rozanov, E ^a,b   Hochedez, J F ^c   Schmutz, W ^a  

^a WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRRADIANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; NOWCASTING; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 45849110259     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-2965-2008     Document Type: Article

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