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Shortwave radiation (optics)
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Outgoing_longwave_radiation/anrmbs9N">Outgoing longwave radiation</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050420085336/http://www.nsdl.arm.gov/Library/glossary.shtml#Shortwave_radiation">National Science Digital Library - Shortwave radiation</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040213233926/http://avc.comm.nsdlib.org/cgi-bin/wiki_grade_interface.pl?Measuring_Solar_Radiation"><i>Measuring Solar Radiation: The Solar Infrared Radiation Station (SIRS)</i></a>. A lesson plan that deals with shortwave radiation from the SIRS instrument.</li></ul> <ul><li>Zhang, Y., W. B. Rossow, A. A. Lacis, V. Oinas and M. I. Mischenko (2004). "Calculation of radiative fluxes from the surface to the top of atmosphere based on <a href="/facts/International_Satellite_Cloud_Climatology_Project/J4QtfBao">ISCCP</a> and other global data sets: Refinements of the radiative transfer model and the input data." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 109(D19105).</li> <li><a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.006">L. Chen, G. Yan, T. Wang, H. Ren, J. Calbó, J. Zhao, R. McKenzie (2012), Estimation of surface shortwave radiation components under all sky conditions: Modeling and sensitivity analysis, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123: 457–469.</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>However, the definition of thermal infrared may start at wavelengths as short as 1.1μm (longer than which optical instruments have difficulty measuring) or anywhere between 2.0μm and 4.0μm, depending on the method of measurement and its purpose. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>L. Chen, G. Yan, T. Wang, H. Ren, J. Calbó, J. Zhao, R. McKenzie (2012), Estimation of surface shortwave radiation components under all sky conditions: Modeling and sensitivity analysis, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123: 457–469. <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.006" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2012.04.006</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>