Andrew:

    Check out RadEst at http://www.isci.it/tools/.  It uses temperature data to
estimate solar radiation.

Andrew Challinor wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm running a crop model across India, and need input solar radiation
> data. So far I've been using the CRU climatological data, but I'd like to
> use temporal data. There seem to be a number of satellite options (eg.
> ERBE, CERES (not the crop model..)). I've also seen a poster by
> Ramkrishnan and Ritchie at http://nowlin.css.msu.edu/ConfNov2000/posters/
> which describes the production of solar radiation data from temperature
> data, though I'm not sure what the quantity ETR is.
>
> Any advice on the best option?
>
> Andy
>
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> University of Reading,
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