Comparison of surface UV irradiance in mountainous regions derived from satellite observations and model calculations with ground-based measurements

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 481-490

  Wagner, Jochen E ^a   Angelini, Federico ^b   Arola, Antti ^c   Blumthaler, Mario ^d   Fitzka, Michael ^d   Gobbi, Gian Paolo ^b   Kift, Richard ^e   Kreuter, Axel ^d   Rieder, Harald E ^f   Simic, Stana ^a   Webb, A N N ^a   Weihs, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PRODUCTS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HIGH QUALITY; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; MODEL CALCULATIONS; MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE HEIGHT; UV INDEX; UV IRRADIANCES; UV RADIATION;

SATELLITES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IRRADIANCE; MOUNTAIN REGION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 78649758794     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2010/0347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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