Earth Space Research
Group
Shortwave
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Movie of Shortwave
Authors
Net Shortwave as calculated by Tao Wang &
Catherine Gautier @ ESRG, UCSB
Description
Net SW is the solar radiation in the 0.3 to 4.0 micron spectral range that
is absorbed at the earth's surface. In these figures this quantity was
derived from ISCCP C1 data (over the ocean only) and the radiation model of
Gautier et al., 1980.
References
Gautier, C., G. Diak and S. Masse, 1980 ,
A simple physical model to estimate incident solar radiation at the surface
from GOES satellite data. Journal of Applied Meteorology Volume 19 pp
1005-1012
Visualization
Image is displayed using mapping packages in IDL (from RSI)
visualization done by Terry Figel @ ESRG, UCSB
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