Summer Solar Radiation in the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Woo, Ming-ko, Young, Kathy L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; clouds; solar radiation; Arctique; nuages; radiation solaire; Reine; Arctique*; Îles de la Reine-Élisabeth; Polar Continental Shelf Project; Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64250

The limited number of weather stations in the Canadian Arctic Islands has prevented the mapping of incoming shortwave radiation. A cloud layer model, using cloud observations reported by summer field camps supported by the Polar Continental Shelf Project, allows the computation of solar radiation fo...