SOVAP/Picard, a Spaceborne Radiometer to Measure the Total Solar Irradiance

Solar Physics

Volumn 289, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1885-1899

  Meftah, M ^a   Dewitte, S ^b   Irbah, A ^a   Chevalier, A ^b   Conscience, C ^b   Crommelynck, D ^b   Janssen, E ^b   Mekaoui, S ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b RMIB   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Instrumental effects; Instrumentation and data management; Solar cycle observations; Solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895902334     PISSN: 00380938     EISSN: 1573093X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11207-013-0443-0     Document Type: Article

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