Latitudinal variations of cloud and aerosol optical thickness trends based on MODIS satellite data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Kishcha, Pavel ^a   Starobinets, Boris ^a   Alpert, Pinhas ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; RADIOMETERS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER;

CLOUDS;

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MODIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SATELLITE DATA; VOLCANIC CLOUD;

EID: 34249885343     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028796     Document Type: Article

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