Use of sky brightness measurements from ground for remote sensing of particulate polydispersions

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2672-2686

  Nakajima, Teruyuki ^a   Tonna, Glauco ^b   Rao, Ruizhong ^b,e   Boi, Paolo ^c   Kaufman, Yoram ^d   Holben, Brent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e ANHUI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

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EID: 6244260108     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002672     Document Type: Article

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