Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Aerosols from Space: Past, Present, and Future

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2229-2259

  King, Michael D ^a   Kaufman, Yoram J ^a   Tanré, Didier ^b   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 0000847315     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<2229:RSOTAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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