Retrievals of aerosol optical depth and Angström exponent from ground-based Sun-photometer data of Singapore

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1473-1484

  Salinas, Santo V ^a   Chew, Boon N ^a   Liew, Soo C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL DEPTH; DIRECT INTERACTIONS; MULTI-WAVELENGTH SUN-PHOTOMETER; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WORLD-WIDE NETWORKS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 63149113408     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001473     Document Type: Article

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