An Independent Review of Existing Total Solar Irradiance Records

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 897-912

  Zacharias, Pia ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Solar activity; Solar variability; Total solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; SOLAR ENERGY; TIME SERIES;

CROSS CALIBRATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SOLAR VARIABILITY; SPACE-BASED; TIME-SCALES; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA QUALITY; ENERGY BUDGET; IRRADIANCE; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOLAR ACTIVITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903889964     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-014-9294-y     Document Type: Review

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