A surface radiation climatology across two Meteosat satellite generations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 142, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-110

  Posselt, R ^a   Mueller, R ^b   Trentmann, J ^b   Stockli, R ^a   Liniger, M A ^a  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate data records; Satellite remote sensing; Solar surface irradiance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS; SOLAR SURFACE IRRADIANCES; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; HOMOGENEITY; METEOSAT; MONITORING; RADIATION BALANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84890284057     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.007     Document Type: Article

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