Estimation of incident photosynthetically active radiation from GOES visible imagery

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 853-868

  Zheng, Tao ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a   Wang, Kaicun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; DIURNAL VARIATIONS; EXISTING METHODS; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGES; EXTERNAL-; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; HIGH TEMPORALS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATIONS; SURFACE CONDITIONS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; TIME SERIES; TO MANY; VISIBLE BANDS; VISIBLE IMAGERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

DIURNAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 57649210322     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JAMC1475.1     Document Type: Article

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