Educational affairs: An International Haze-Monitoring Network for Students

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1421-1431

  Mims III, Forrest M ^a,b  

^a Sun Photometer Atmosph Netwk/GLOBE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0000901076     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1999)080<1421:aihmnf>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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