Estimating the maritime component of aerosol optical depth and its dependency on surface wind speed using satellite data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6711-6720

  Lehahn, Y ^a,b   Koren, I ^b   Boss, E ^c   Ben Ami, Y ^b   Altaratz, O ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77954948773     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-6711-2010     Document Type: Article

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