An advanced model for the estimation of the surface solar irradiance under all atmospheric conditions using MSG/SEVIRI data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2934-2953

  Geraldi, Edoardo ^a   Romano, Filomena ^b   Ricciardelli, Elisabetta ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerosol radiation interaction; cloud radiation interaction; meteosat second generation (MSG); solar energy; spinning enhanced visible and infrared imager (SEVIRI); surface solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL RADIATION; CLOUD-RADIATION INTERACTIONS; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DESIGN; ESTIMATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; SOLAR ENERGY;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IRRADIANCE; METEOSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEVIRI; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84864277415     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2178855     Document Type: Article

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