Estimation of Daily Sunshine Duration from Terra and Aqua MODIS Data
Joint Authors
Source
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-04-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Some studies have shown that the estimation of global sunshine duration can be done with the help of geostationary satellites because they can record several images of the same location in a day.
In this paper, images obtained from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensors of polar orbiting satellites Aqua and Terra were used to estimate daily global sunshine duration for any region in Turkey.
A new quadratic correlation between daily mean cloud cover index and relative sunshine duration was also introduced and compared with the linear correlation.
Results have shown that polar orbiting satellites can be used for the estimation of sunshine duration.
The quadratic model introduced here works better than the linear model especially for the winter months in which very low sunshine duration values were recorded at the ground stations for many days.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Kandirmaz, H. M.& Kaba, K.. 2014. Estimation of Daily Sunshine Duration from Terra and Aqua MODIS Data. Advances in Meteorology،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-485134
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Kandirmaz, H. M.& Kaba, K.. Estimation of Daily Sunshine Duration from Terra and Aqua MODIS Data. Advances in Meteorology No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-485134
American Medical Association (AMA)
Kandirmaz, H. M.& Kaba, K.. Estimation of Daily Sunshine Duration from Terra and Aqua MODIS Data. Advances in Meteorology. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-485134
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-485134