Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-5-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/asr-12-5-2015
18 Feb 2015
 | 18 Feb 2015

Estimating the photosynthetically active radiation under clear skies by means of a new approach

W. Wandji Nyamsi, B. Espinar, P. Blanc, and L. Wald

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We propose an innovative method to estimate the Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) under...
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