Equivalence of pyrheliometric and monochromatic aerosol optical depths at a single key wavelength

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 30, 1998, Pages 7008-7018

  Molineaux, Benoît ^a   Ineichen, Pierre ^a   O’neill, Norm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OZONE LAYER; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPORS; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; PYRHELIOMETER; SUNPHOTOMETER;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS;

EID: 0032552750     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.007008     Document Type: Article

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