Aerosol retrievals over the ocean by use of channels 1 and 2 AVHRR data: Sensitivity analysis and preliminary results

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 36, 1999, Pages 7325-7341

  Mishchenko, Michael I ^a   Geogdzhayev, Igor V ^a,b   Cairns, Brian ^a,b   Rossow, William B ^a   Lacis, Andrew A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0000765435     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.007325     Document Type: Article

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