Retrieval of the columnar aerosol phase function and single- scattering albedo from sky radiance over the ocean: Simulations

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1993, Pages 4598-4609

  Wang, Menghua ^a   Gordon, Howard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING; ERRORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

COLUMNAR AEROSOL PHASE; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO; SKY RADIANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL PHASE; CALIBRATION ERROR; NEAR-IR; PHASE FUNCTIONS; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO;

EID: 0027640409     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.004598     Document Type: Article

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