Long-term observations of aerosol optical depths at the Meteorological Observatory Lindenberg

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 651-662

  Weller, Michael ^a   Gericke, Klaus ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATORY; OPTICAL DEPTH; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE;

BRANDENBURG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LINDENBERG;

EID: 33646042561     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2005/0070     Document Type: Article

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