The determination of the atmospheric optical thickness over Western Europe using SeaWiFS imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 824-832

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a   Von Hoyningen Huene, Wolfgang ^a   Bovensmann, Heinrich ^a   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Atmospheric optics; Clouds; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; FREQUENCIES; HYDROLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC GASES; MACROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2442522682     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.819880     Document Type: Article

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