Dust aerosol forward scattering effects on ground-based aerosol optical depth retrievals

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 310-319

  Ge, J M ^a,b   Su, J ^a,b   Fu, Q ^a,b   Ackerman, T P ^b   Huang, J P ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust aerosol; Forward scattering; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; ASYMMETRY FACTOR; DIRECT BEAMS; DUST AEROSOLS; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED INSTRUMENTS; MONTE CARLO; PROJECTED AREA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS; RELATIVE ERRORS; SCATTERING ANGLES; SCATTERING INTENSITY; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SINGLE SCATTERING; SINGLE-SCATTERING ALBEDO; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; DUST; ERRORS; LIGHT SCATTERING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPHERES;

FORWARD SCATTERING;

AEROSOL; DUST; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 78649528995     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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