Retrieving aerosol optical properties from moments of the particle size distribution

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 651-654

  Yue, G K ^a   Lu, J ^b   Mohnen, V A ^b   Wang, P H ^c,e   Saxena, V K ^d   Anderson, J ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Sciences and Technology Corporation

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION MOMENTS; RANDOMIZED MINIMIZATION SEARCH TECHNIQUE (RMST);

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RANDOMIZED MINIMUM SEARCH METHOD;

EID: 0031084805     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00522     Document Type: Article

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