Global validation of two-channel AVHRR aerosol optical thickness retrievals over the oceans

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 88, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 97-109

  Liu, Li ^a,b   Mishchenko, Michael I ^b   Geogdzhayev, Igor ^b,c   Smirnov, Alexander ^d   Sakerin, Sergey M ^e   Kabanov, Dmitry M ^e   Ershov, Oleg A ^f  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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

^c NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ^*  (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric aerosols; Optical thickness; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETER (AVHRR); OPTICAL THICKNESS; SUN-PHOTOMETERS; TWO-CHANNEL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AVHRR; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4444348798     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2004.03.031     Document Type: Article

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