Properties of coastal Antarctic aerosol from combined FTIR spectrometer and sun photometer measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Rathke, Carsten ^a   Notholt, Justus ^b   Fischer, Jürgen ^a   Herber, Andreas ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

DUMMY

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED DEVICES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROMETERS;

BIMODAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION; DUMMY; EXTINCTION SPECTRA; FT-IR-SPECTROMETERS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; VISIBLE NEAR-INFRARED;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 0036951121     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015395     Document Type: Article

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