Estimation of net radiation from the MODIS data under all sky conditions: Southern Great Plains case study

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1522-1534

  Bisht, Gautam ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric energy balance; Clear days; Cloudy days; Energy budget; MODIS; Net radiation; Remote sensing; Surface energy budget

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY; CLOUDY DAYS; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY BUDGETS; MODIS; NET RADIATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; ENERGY BALANCE; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LANDFORMS; OVERPASSES; RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TENSION;

BUDGET CONTROL;

CLEAR SKY; ENERGY BUDGET; MODIS; NET RADIATION; RADIATION BUDGET; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; SURFACE ENERGY;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 77951113695     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.007     Document Type: Article

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