Technical note: Determination of aerosol optical properties by a calibrated sky imager

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6417-6427

  Cazorla, A ^a,b   Shields, J E ^c   Karr, M E ^c   Olmo, F J ^c   Burden, A ^a,b   Alados Arboledas, L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALIBRATION; IMAGING METHOD; MODELING; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHOTOMETER;

EID: 75249098361     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-6417-2009     Document Type: Article

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