A critical look at deriving monthly aerosol optical depth from satellite data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2942-2956

  Levy, Robert C ^a,b   Leptoukh, Gregory G ^b   Kahn, Ralph ^b   Zubko, Victor ^b,c   Gopalan, Arun ^a,b   Remer, Lorraine A ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c ADNET   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol optical depth (AOD); Averaging; Global; Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS); Monthly; Sampling

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH (AOD); AVERAGING; GLOBAL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); MONTHLY;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NASA; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIR SAMPLING; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 67949100459     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013842     Document Type: Article

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