Charge-coupled device spectrograph for direct solar irradiance and sky radiance measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1594-1607

  Kouremeti, Natalia ^a   Bais, Alkiviadis ^a   Kazadzis, Stelios ^a   Blumthaler, Mario ^b   Schmitt, Rainer ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c Meteorologie Consult GmbH (Metcon)   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; GEOPHYSICS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 48949101676     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001594     Document Type: Article

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