Testing aerosol properties in MODIS Collection 4 and 5 using airborne sunphotometer observations in INTEX-B/MILAGRO

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8159-8172

  Redemann, J ^a   Zhang, Q ^a   Livingston, J ^b   Russell, P ^c   Shinozuka, Y ^c   Clarke, A ^d   Johnson, R ^c   Levy, R ^e  

^a BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIRBORNE SENSING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 70450233384     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-8159-2009     Document Type: Article

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