Water vapor column content and optical depths measurements by a sun- and starphotometer

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 401-420

  Leiterer, Ulrich ^a   Alekseeva, Galina ^b   Galkin, Viatcheslav ^b   Dier, Horst ^a   Güldner, Jürgen ^a   Naebert, Axel ^d   Naebert, Tatjana ^a   Novikov, Victor ^b   Rentsch, Harald ^a   Sakunov, German ^c  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d Dr Schulz and Partner GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0032416733     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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