The 1985 biomass burning season in South America: Satellite remote sensing of fires, smoke, and regional radiative energy budgets

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 661-678

  Christopher, Sundar A ^a   Wang, Min ^a   Berendes, Todd A ^a   Welch, Ronald M ^a   Yang, Shi Keng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NCEP   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; BIOMASS BURNING; COOLING; RADIATIVE FORCING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032436234     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0661:TBBSIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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