The HelioClim-1 database of daily solar radiation at earth surface: An example of the benefits of GEOSS data-CORE

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1745-1753

  Lefèvre, Mireille ^a   Blanc, Philippe ^a   Espinar, Bella ^a   Gschwind, Benoît ^a   Ménard, Lionel ^a   Ranchin, Thierry ^a   Wald, Lucien ^a   Saboret, Laurent ^b   Thomas, Claire ^b   Wey, Etienne ^b  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b TRANSVALOR S A   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; agro meteorology; air quality; architecture; climate; Europe; GEOSS; health; irradiance; meteosat; ocean; solar energy

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; HEALTH; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AFRICA; AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE; EUROPE; GEOSS; IRRADIANCE; METEOSAT; OCEAN;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

AIR QUALITY; DATABASE; IRRADIATION; METEOSAT; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

AFRICA; AIR QUALITY; CLIMATES; DATA BASES; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITES; SUN LIGHT;

AFRICA;

EID: 84903302502     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2283791     Document Type: Article

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