Aerosol index from TOMS and OMI measurements

86th AMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ahmad, Suraiya P ^a   Torres, Omar ^b   Bhartia, Pawan K ^b   Leptoukh, Gregory ^a   Kempler, Steve ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING AEROSOL; ABSORBING AEROSOL INDICES; AEROSOL CONTAMINATION; AEROSOL INDEX; AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOMASS-BURNING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXPLORATION; DATA SETS; FORECAST MODEL; LONG TERM DATA RECORD; QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; WEB BASED;

AIR POLLUTION; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 77949311141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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