Estimating surface long-wave radiative fluxes at global scale

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 665, 2012, Pages 1083-1093

  Nussbaumer, Eric A ^a   Pinker, Rachel T ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Longwave radiation from satellites; Surface longwave radiation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; ALL-SKY; CLOUD PARAMETERS; CLOUD STRUCTURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOWN-WELLING; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL SCALE; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; HIGH LATITUDES; LONG-WAVE RADIATION; MIDLATITUDES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PARAMETRIZATIONS; RADIATIVE FLUXES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SURFACE RADIATION;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WAVES;

LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODIS; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84859892222     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.974     Document Type: Article

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