A new database of global and direct solar radiation using the eastern meteosat satellite, models and validation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 8165-8189

  Amillo, Ana Gracia ^a   Huld, Thomas ^a   Müller, Richard ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct normal irradiance; Global horizontal irradiance; Satellite based retrieval; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

DIRECT NORMAL IRRADIANCES; DIRECT SOLAR RADIATION; GLOBAL HORIZONTAL IRRADIANCE; METEOSAT SATELLITES; SATELLITE-BASED RETRIEVAL;

SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 84907464370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6098165     Document Type: Article

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