Failure and redemption of multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer (MFRSR)/normal incidence multifilter radiometer (NIMFR) cloud screening: Contrasting algorithm performance at atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) north slope of alaska (NSA) and southern great plains (SGP) sites

Atmosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 299-314

  Kassianov, Evgueni ^a   Flynn, Connor ^a   Koontz, Annette ^a   Sivaraman, Chitra ^a   Barnard, James ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth and angstrom exponent; Atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) north slope of alaska (NSA) sites; Cloud screening algorithms; Direct beam sun transmittance; Ground based multi spectral measurements; Multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer (MFRSR); Normal incidence multifilter radiometer (NIMFR)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; RADIOMETERS;

ANGSTROM EXPONENT; DIRECT-BEAM SUN TRANSMITTANCE; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTIFILTER RADIOMETER; MULTIFILTER ROTATING SHADOWBAND RADIOMETERS; NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA;

ALGORITHMS;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE FORCING; RADIOMETER; TRANSMITTANCE;

ALASKA; GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888810782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/atmos4030299     Document Type: Article

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