Correction of broadband snow albedo measurements affected by unknown slope and sensor tilts

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 775-790

  Weiser, Ursula ^a   Olefs, Marc ^a   Schöner, Wolfgang ^b   Weyss, Gernot ^a   Hynek, Bernhard ^a  

^a ZAMG Zentralanstalt fuer Meteorologie und Geodynamik   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ENERGY BALANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; RADIATION BUDGET; SENSOR; SLOPE ANGLE; SNOW COVER; SOLAR RADIATION; TERRAIN; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84966334416     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-775-2016     Document Type: Article

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