Assessment of clear and cloudy sky parameterizations for daily downwelling longwave radiation over different land surfaces in Florida, USA

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Choi, Minha ^a   Jacobs, Jennifer M ^b   Kustas, William P ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VAPOR PRESSURE;

CLEAR SKIES; CLOUDY SKIES; DOWNWELLING; FLORIDA; FLORIDA , USA; LAND SURFACES; LONGWAVE RADIATIONS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SQUARED CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

BLOCK CODES;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUD COVER; ERROR ANALYSIS; LAND SURFACE; LONGWAVE RADIATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58249085389     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035731     Document Type: Article

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