Assessment of BSRN radiation records for the computation of monthly means

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 339-354

  Roesch, A ^a   Wild, M ^a   Ohmura, A ^a   Dutton, E G ^b   Long, C N ^c   Zhang, T ^d  

^a Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATION BALANCE; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84862833049     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-339-2011     Document Type: Article

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