Automated multifilter rotating shadow-band radiometer: An instrument for optical depth and radiation measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 1994, Pages 5118-5125

  Harrison, Lee ^a   Michalsky, Joseph ^a   Berndt, Jerry ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric radiometry; Langley regression; Optical depth; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTODIODES; RADIOACTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIOMETRY; AUTOMATIC ROTATING; LANGLEY REGRESSION; MULTIFILTER ROTATING SHADOW BAND RADIOMETERS; OPTICAL DEPTH; TURBIDITY;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0028493218     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.33.005118     Document Type: Article

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