On downward shortwave and longwave radiations over high altitude regions: Observation and modeling in the Tibetan Plateau

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-46

  Yang, Kun ^a   He, Jie ^a,b   Tang, Wenjun ^a,b   Qin, Jun ^a   Cheng, Charles C K ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

High altitude; Hybrid model; Radiation; Satellite estimate; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LONGWAVE RADIATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 70449524294     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.08.004     Document Type: Article

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