Shortwave Aerosol Radiative Forcing from MODIS and CERES observations over the oceans

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 18, 2002, Pages

  Christopher, Sundar A ^a   Zhang, Jianglong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE MODELS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CLOUDS AND EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; GLOBAL OCEAN; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPTICAL THICKNESS; SHORTWAVE AEROSOL RADIATIVE FORCING; TERRA SATELLITES; VALIDATION TOOLS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0037107319     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL014803     Document Type: Article

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