Atmospheric aerosol monitoring from satellite observations: A history of three decades

Atmospheric and Biological Environmental Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 13-38

  Lee, Kwon H ^a   Li, Zhanqing ^a   Kim, Young J ^b   Kokhanovsky, Alexander ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Instrument; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Satellite

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149169850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9674-7_2     Document Type: Chapter

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