The correlation between particle mass loading and extinction: Application to desert dust content estimation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 187-194

  Cachorro, Victoria E ^a,b   Tanré, Didier ^c  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CORRELATION METHODS; CURVE FITTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

PARTICLE MASS EXTINCTION; PARTICLE MASS LOADING;

REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL EXTINCTION; DESERT; DUST; INVERSION METHOD; MASS LOADING; SUN PHOTOMETER;

SENEGAL, M'BOUR;

EID: 0030615802     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00185-X     Document Type: Article

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