Calculation of albedo and infrared flux calibrated by satellite observations: Results for time mean values over continents and oceans and interannual changes over land
Abstract
Monthly mean albedo and infrared flux was estimated by regression methods, using monthly averaged conventional meteorological variables which are associated with cloudiness and/or cloudiness change as predictors. Developmental equations were derived from 36 months of the 42 month archive of data from NOAA satellites, for the overland work, and of 41 months over the oceans.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- August 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980caif.rept.....C
- Keywords:
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- Cloud Cover;
- Cosmic Ray Albedo;
- Flux Density;
- Infrared Radiation;
- Meteorological Parameters;
- Satellite Observation;
- Absorptance;
- Gamma Rays;
- Noaa Satellites;
- Optical Properties;
- Regression Analysis;
- Solar Radiation;
- Geophysics