Optical depth measurements by shadow-band radiometers and their uncertainties

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 33, 2007, Pages 8027-8038

  Alexandrov, Mikhail D ^a,b   Kiedron, Peter ^c   Michalsky, Joseph J ^c   Hodges, Gary ^c   Flynn, Connor J ^d   Lacis, Andrew A ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RADIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

MULTI-FILTER ROTATING SHADOW-BAND RADIOMETER (MFRSR); OPTICAL DEPTH MEASUREMENTS; SHADOW-BAND RADIOMETERS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 38849162848     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008027     Document Type: Article

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