Estimation of surface shortwave radiation components under all sky conditions: Modeling and sensitivity analysis

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 457-469

  Chen, Ling ^a   Yan, Guangjian ^a   Wang, Tianxing ^b   Ren, Huazhong ^a   Calbó, Josep ^c   Zhao, Jing ^a   McKenzie, Richard ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Global sensitivity analysis; Hemispherical effective cloud fraction; MODTRAN CF

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC VISIBILITY; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; EFFECTIVE CLOUD FRACTION; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; EXTREME CONDITIONS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; INDEPENDENT PIXEL APPROXIMATIONS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODTRAN; MODTRAN-CF; PHYSICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SURFACE ALBEDO; TOP-OF-ATMOSPHERE RADIANCES;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PIXEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84861006080     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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