Tropospheric aerosol optical thickness from the GOCART model and comparisons with satellite and sun photometer measurements

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 461-483

  Chin, Mian ^a,b   Ginoux, Paul ^a,b   Kinne, Stefan ^b,c   Torres, Omar ^b,c   Holben, Brent N ^b   Duncan, Bryan N ^d   Martin, Randall V ^d   Logan, Jennifer A ^d   Higurashi, Akiko ^e   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^f  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL RADIATION; AEROSOL SOURCE; AVERAGED MODELS; BIOMASS BURNING EMISSIONS; BIOMASS-BURNING; BLACK CARBON; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST EMISSION; DUST SOURCES; GEORGIA; HYGROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PARAMETER; OZONE CHEMISTRY; PROMINENT FEATURES; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; REMOTE REGIONS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEA SALTS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUN PHOTOMETERS; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

DUST; OZONE; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 0036326753     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059%3C0461%3ATAOTFT%3E2.0.C     Document Type: Article

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