Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3317-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-3317-2017
Research article
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08 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 08 Mar 2017

Multiresolution analysis of the spatiotemporal variability in global radiation observed by a dense network of 99 pyranometers

Bomidi Lakshmi Madhavan, Hartwig Deneke, Jonas Witthuhn, and Andreas Macke

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A method has been introduced to assess the representativeness of the time series of a point measurement compared to results for a larger area centered around the measurement location. This method allows one to determine the optimal accuracy that can be achieved for the validation of satellite products for a given pixel footprint, or the evaluation of an atmospheric model with a given grid-cell resolution.
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