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Estimation of Daily Sunshine Duration from Terra and Aqua MODIS Data

Author(s) -

H. M. Kandirmaz,

Kazım Kaba

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

advances in meteorology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.482

H-Index - 32

eISSN - 1687-9317

pISSN - 1687-9309

DOI - 10.1155/2014/613267

Subject(s) - sunshine duration , geostationary orbit , moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer , cloud cover , duration (music) , meteorology , geography , environmental science , remote sensing , angstrom , climatology , satellite , cloud computing , geology , physics , computer science , relative humidity , chemistry , astronomy , acoustics , crystallography , operating system

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

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