Maritime aerosol optical thickness measured by handheld sun photometers

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 87-106

  Knobelspiesse, Kirk D ^a,b   Pietras, Christophe ^a,c   Fargion, Giulietta S ^a,c   Wang, Menghua ^a,d,i   Frouin, Robert ^e   Miller, Mark A ^f   Subramaniam, Ajit ^g   Balch, William M ^h  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Bldg 142   (United States)

^h BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

ngstr m exponent; Aerosol optical thickness; Maritime aerosols; Sun photometer

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNES (AOT); AEROSOL POPULATION;

CATCHMENTS; PHOTOMETERS; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; STANDARDIZATION;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; DATA PROCESSING; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4544378560     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.06.018     Document Type: Article

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