Towards multidecadal consistent meteosat surface albedo time series

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 957-967

  Loew, Alexander ^a   Govaerts, Yves ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Essential climate variables; Meteosat; Stability analysis; Surface albedo; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIABLES; METEOSAT; STABILITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE ALBEDO; TEMPORAL STABILITY;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; TIME SERIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84860389753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2040957     Document Type: Article

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