Solar dimming and brightening over Thessaloniki, Greece, and Beijing, China

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 657-665

  Zerefos, C S ^a,b,c   Eleftheratos, K ^a,c   Meleti, C ^d   Kazadzis, S ^b,e   Romanou, A ^a   Ichoku, C ^f   Tselioudis, G ^a   Bais, A ^d  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; OPTICAL DEPTH; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CENTRAL MACEDONIA; CHINA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 74049103095     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00425.x     Document Type: Article

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