Pyrheliometric and circumsolar sky radiation measurements by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1923 to 1954

Douglas V. Hoyt

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v31i3.10428

Pyrheliometric and circumsolar sky radiation measurements by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1923 to 1954

Tellus

Volume 31 (1979): Issue 3

By: Douglas V. Hoyt

Open Access

|Jan 1979

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