Optical characteristics of aerosol determined by Cimel, Prede, and Microtops II sun photometers over Belsk, Poland

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7027, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Evgenieva, Tsvetina ^a   Iliev, Ilko ^b   Kolev, Nikolay ^a   Sobolewski, Piotr ^c   Pieterczuk, Aleksander ^c   Holben, Brent ^d   Kolev, Ivan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (Bulgaria)

^b SOLAR TERRESTRIAL INFLUENCES LABORATORY   (Bulgaria)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ELECTRON OPTICS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RURAL AREAS;

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGNS; IN FIELDS; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SUN PHOTOMETERS; SUN-TRACKING; URBAN AND RURAL AREAS;

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EID: 60649092902     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.822507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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