Estimating the altitude of aerosol plumes over the ocean from reflectance ratio measurements in the O2 A-band

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1899-1911

  Dubuisson, Philippe ^a   Frouin, Robert ^b   Dessailly, David ^c   Duforêt, Lucile ^c   Léon, Jean François ^a   Voss, Kenneth ^d   Antoine, David ^e  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

^d Department of Biology   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Absorption; Aerosols; MERIS; Oxygen A band; POLDER; Scattering; Vertical distribution

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; MERIS; OXYGEN A-BAND; POLDER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ALTITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERIS; OXYGEN; PLUME; POLDER; REFLECTANCE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 67749109785     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.04.018     Document Type: Article

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