Earth Space Research
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Downwelling Shortwave
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Movie of Shortwave
Authors
Downwelling Shortwave as calculated by Catherine Gautier @ ESRG, UCSB
Visualization
Image is displayed using mapping packages in IDL (from RSI)
visualization done by Terry Figel @ ESRG, UCSB
Description
Downwelling SW is the incident solar radiation in the 0.3 to 4.0 micron
spectral range at the earth's surface. In these figures this quantity was
derived from ISCCP C1 data and the radiation model of Gautier et al., 1985.
Visualization
Image is displayed using mapping packages in IDL (from RSI)
visualization done by Terry Figel @ ESRG, UCSB
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