Aerosol retrievals from AVHRR radiances: Effects of particle nonsphericity and absorption and an updated long-term global climatology of aerosol properties

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 79-80, Issue , 2003, Pages 953-972

  Mishchenko, Michael I ^a   Geogdzhayev, Igor V ^a,b   Liu, Li ^a,c   Ogren, John A ^d   Lacis, Andrew A ^a   Rossow, William B ^a   Hovenier, Joop W ^c,e   Volten, Hester ^f,g   Munoz, Olga ^h  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^h INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosols; Nonspherical particles; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

NONSPHERICITY;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AVHRR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0038701752     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(02)00331-X     Document Type: Article

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