Correction of direct irradiance measurements of Brewer spectrophotometers due to the effect of internal polarization

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Cede, Alexander ^a,b   Kazadzis, Stelios ^c   Kowalewski, Matt ^a,b   Bais, Alkis ^c   Kouremeti, Natalia ^c   Blumthaler, Mario ^d   Herman, Jay ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION ALGORITHMS; INTERNAL POLARIZATION; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

IRRADIANCE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 33644769534     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024860     Document Type: Article

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