Significant overestimation of global aerosol optical thickness by MODIS over land

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 2905-2912

  Xia, Xiang'ao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

AERONET; AOT; MODIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845659011     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-2157-2     Document Type: Article

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