Retrieval of aerosol optical properties over the ocean using multispectral polarization measurements from space

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 103-114

  Masuda, Kazuhiko ^a   Takashima, Tsutomu ^b   Kawata, Yoshiyuki ^c   Yamazaki, Akihiro ^a   Sasaki, Masayuki ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ADEOS POLDER; Aerosol; Polarization; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000013837     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0096-3003(99)00198-8     Document Type: Article

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