Blue twilight in a simple atmosphere

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4815, Issue , 2002, Pages 73-81

  Ekstrom, Phil ^a,b  

^a Lotek Wireless   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Blue Twilight; Geolocation; Scattering; Twilight

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; SOLAR RADIATION;

BEAM ATTENUATION; CLOUDINESS; ISOTROPIC SCATTERING; LIGHT INTENSITY;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

EID: 0036449808     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.482305     Document Type: Conference Paper

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