Estimating aerosol optical properties over the oceans with the multiangle imaging spectroadiometer: Some preliminary studies

Applied Optics

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 1994, Pages 4042-4057

  Wang, Menghua ^a   Gordon, Howard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOLS; OCEAN; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROADIOMETER; SPECTRORADIOMETER;

LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROSCOPY;

MULTIANGLE IMAGING; SPECTRORADIOMETERS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 0028581716     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.33.004042     Document Type: Article

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