Chapter 4 examines the design of instruments for measuring the total amount of radiation, or spectrally restricted subsets of the total radiation, reaching or reflected from Earth’s surface. A detailed discussion of the design of pyranometers is given, to illustrate how to transform design principles into working instruments. An introduction is given to using light-emitting diodes as spectrally selective sunlight detectors. For each instrument, calibration procedures and applications are discussed.
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(2008). Instrument Design Principles I: Radiometers. In: Bringing the Sun Down to Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8694-6_4
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