Albedo effect on radiative errors in air temperature measurements

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Huwald, Hendrik ^a   Higgins, Chad W ^a   Boldi, Marc Olivier ^a   Bou Zeid, Elie ^b   Lehning, Michael ^c   Parlange, Marc B ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; AIR TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ERROR-CORRECTION SCHEMES; KEY VARIABLES; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT PRINCIPLE; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; NONDIMENSIONAL; RADIATIVE ERRORS; REGRESSION MODEL; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SONIC ANEMOMETER; TEMPERATURE ERROR; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSORS; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS;

ERROR CORRECTION;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ERROR CORRECTION; MAGNITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SNOW COVER; SOLAR RADIATION; SONIC BOOM; VENTILATION;

EID: 70349771948     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007600     Document Type: Article

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