Publication Date:
2011-08-16
Description:
Issue is taken with the ascription of the 2% discrepancy in values of solar irradiance at the surface of the earth, found between the measurements performed by the absolute radiometers of Kendall and Wilson and those obtained by Eppley-Angstrom pyrheliometers, to the possibility that the two types of instruments might collect different amounts of circumsolar radiation. It is shown that this explanation is very unlikely.
Keywords:
INSTRUMENTATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Type:
Applied Optics; 11; June 197
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