The HelioClim project: Surface solar irradiance data for climate applications

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 343-361

  Blanc, Philippe ^a   Gschwind, Benoît ^a   Lefèvre, Mireille ^a   Wald, Lucien ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Atlantic Ocean; Climate; Europe; Long term analysis; Meteosat; Remote sensing; Solar exposure; Solar irradiance; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE; EUROPE; LONG TERM ANALYSIS; METEOSAT; SOLAR EXPOSURE; SOLAR IRRADIANCES;

REMOTE SENSING; SUN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 80051875043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3020343     Document Type: Article

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