Comparative assessment of satellite-retrieved surface net radiation: An examination on CERES and SRB datasets in China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4899-4918

  Pan, Xin ^a,b   Liu, Yuanbo ^a   Fan, Xingwang ^a,b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; CERES; SRB; Surface net radiation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BALLOONS; BUDGET CONTROL; ERRORS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; VISIBILITY; WATER VAPOR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CERES; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; LAND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION; NET RADIATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SRB; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET;

RADIATION;

EID: 84937912487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70404899     Document Type: Article

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