The Next Generation Flux Analysis: Adding Clear-Sky LW and LW Cloud Effects, Cloud Optical Depths, and Improved Sky Cover Estimates
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The original Shortwave Flux Analysis (SWFA), based on Long and Ackerman (2000) and Long et al. (1999), deals only with daylight shortwave (SW) data. The SWFA algorithm produces continuous estimates of clear-sky downwelling diffuse, direct, and total SW; estimated fractional sky cover; and identification of when the sky was cloudless. This algorithm package is being produced as an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) value-added product (VAP), as described in Long and Gaustad (2001).
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