Total solar irradiance data record accuracy and consistency improvements

Metrologia

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kopp, Greg ^a   Fehlmann, André ^b   Finsterle, Wolfgang ^b   Harber, David ^a   Heuerman, Karl ^a   Willson, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

^c ACRIM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; DATA GAP; DATA RECORDS; EARTH CLIMATE; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; LABORATORY TEST; SOLAR DATA; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); SOLAR RADIATION;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84857957007     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/49/2/S29     Document Type: Article

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