New method for inferring total ozone and aerosol optical thickness from multispectral extinction measurements using eigenvalue analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 3085-3088

  Taha, Ghassan ^a   Box, Gail P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; OZONE; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTRORADIOMETERS (TOMS);

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

AEROSOL; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OZONE;

EID: 0033569084     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010823     Document Type: Article

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