Abstract: The success of satellite monitoring of global climate change depends on the ability to validate satellite inference methods against accurate ?ground truth.? Under a recent World Meteorological Organization?World Climate ...

Abstract: This paper reports results of observations of radiative fluxes measured in sub-Sahel Africa during a 2-yr period (1992?94). Shortwave radiation in the solar spectrum (0.2?4.0 ?m), photosynthetically active radiation (0.4?0.7 ...