Estimation of high-spatial resolution clear-sky longwave downward and net radiation over land surfaces from MODIS data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 745-754

  Wang, Wenhui ^a   Liang, Shunlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

MODIS; Remote sensing; Surface downwelling longwave radiation; Surface net longwave radiation; Surface radiation budget

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; BACKPROPAGATION; BUDGET CONTROL; ERRORS; HYBRID SENSORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; GROUND DATUM; HIGH-SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; HYBRID METHODS; LAND SURFACES; LINEAR MODELS; LONG WAVES; MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NET RADIATIONS; NON-LINEAR MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SIMULATED DATA SETS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STANDARD ERRORS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PRESSURES; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET; TOA RADIANCES; TWO COMPONENTS; ZENITH ANGLES;

RADIATION;

CLEAR SKY; DIEL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODIS; NET RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 60749097764     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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