The CMSAF hourly solar irradiance database (product CM54): Accuracy and bias corrections with illustrations for Romania (south-eastern Europe)

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 93, Issue , 2013, Pages 100-109

  Badescu, Viorel ^a,c   Dumitrescu, Alexandru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL ADMINISTRATION   (Romania)

^c ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Heliosat family; MAGICSOL algorithm; Romania

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; BIAS ERROR; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLOUDY SKIES; DATA SETS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; HELIOSAT; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; METEOSAT; METEOSAT SATELLITES; OVERCAST SKIES; REGRESSION RELATIONSHIP; ROMANIA; ROMANIANS; SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES; SCANNING ANGLES; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE; TOTAL CLOUD COVER; VISIBLE CHANNELS; ZENITH ANGLE;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872040753     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.12.001     Document Type: Article

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