Retrieval of optical depth and particle size distribution of tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols by means of sun photometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 172-182

  Schmid, Beat ^a   Mätzler, Christian ^a   Heimo, Alain ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Optical depth; Size distribution; Sun photometry

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETRY;

ANGSTROM LAW DEPENDENCE; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; INVERSION METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; SUN PHOTOMETRY; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 0030736978     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.551945     Document Type: Article

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