Global Performance of a Fast Parameterization Scheme for Estimating Surface Solar Radiation from MODIS Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 3558-3571

  Tang, Wenjun ^a,b   Yang, Kun ^a,b,c   Sun, Zhian ^d   Qin, Jun ^a   Niu, Xiaolei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CAS CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TIBETAN PLATEAU EARTH SCIENCES   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Estimation; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); parameterization scheme; surface solar radiation (SSR)

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERINGS; GLOBAL PERFORMANCE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE OBSERVATION; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET NETWORKS; SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION;

RADIOMETERS;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; MODIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SCATTERING; SOLAR RADIATION; TERRA (SATELLITE);

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

EID: 85017172916     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2676164     Document Type: Article

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