Global ship track distribution and radiative forcing from 1 year of AATSR data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Schreier, Mathias ^a,b   Mannstein, Hermann ^b   Eyring, Veronika ^b   Bovensmann, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; BACKSCATTERING; OCEAN CURRENTS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS;

ADVANCED ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; RADIATIVE FORCING; SHIP EMISSIONS; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

BACKSCATTER; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ENVISAT-1; SATELLITE DATA; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 34948877905     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030664     Document Type: Article

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