Retrieval of the ultraviolet effective snow albedo during 1998 winter campaign in the French Alps

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1583-1587

  Smolskaia, Irina ^a   Masserot, Dominique ^a,b   Lenoble, Jacqueline ^a,b   Brogniez, Colette ^b   Casinière, Alain De La ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; OZONE; SNOW;

SNOW ALBEDO;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0042383170     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.001583     Document Type: Article

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