A new approach for simultaneously retrieving cloud albedo and cloud fraction from surface-based shortwave radiation measurements

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Xie, Yu ^a   Liu, Yangang ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

cloud albedo; cloud fraction; shortwave radiation measurement

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; CLOUD ALBEDO; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DIRECT AND DIFFUSE RADIATIONS; DOWN-WELLING RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CLOUD WATER; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW MODELING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHORTWAVE RADIATION;

EID: 84891960357     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044023     Document Type: Article

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