An observing system simulation experiment (OSSE) for aerosol optical depth from satellites

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2673-2682

  Timmermans, Renske M A ^a   Schaap, Martijn ^a   Builtjes, Peter ^a   Elbern, Hendrik ^b   Siddans, Richard ^c   Tjemkes, Stephen ^d   Vautard, Robert ^e  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND-LEVEL; HUMAN HEALTH; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MEDIAN DIAMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PILOT STUDIES; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE MISSION; WIDE AREA;

AIR QUALITY; EXPERIMENTS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 73049111768     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1263.1     Document Type: Article

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