Remote sensing of ocean color and aerosol properties: Resolving the issue of aerosol absorption

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 33, 1997, Pages 8670-8684

  Gordon, Howard R ^a   Du, Tao ^a   Zhang, Tianming ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; OCEAN COLOR; OPTICS; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 14444282421     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.008670     Document Type: Article

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