Methodology to create a new total solar irradiance record: Making a composite out of multiple data records

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1196-1203

  Dudok de Wit, Thierry ^a   Kopp, Greg ^b,c   Fröhlich, Claus ^d   Schöll, Micha ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^d Dählenwaldstrasse 30 ^*  (Switzerland)

^e WORLD RADIATION CENTER   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

data fusion; total solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DATA FUSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA DRIVEN; DATA GAP; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MULTIPLE DATA; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SINGLE COMPOSITES; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

COMPOSITE; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; IRRADIANCE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATIVE FORCING; SOLAR RADIATION;

EID: 85012115702     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071866     Document Type: Article

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