Technical Note: REFIR-PAD level 1 data analysis and performance characterization

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3817-3826

  Bianchini, G ^a   Palchetti, L ^a  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA MANAGEMENT; LONGWAVE RADIATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIANCE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 47849133239     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-3817-2008     Document Type: Article

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