Accurate monitoring of terrestrial aerosols and total solar irradiance: The NASA Glory mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7826, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cairns, Brian ^a   Mishchenko, Michael ^a   Maring, Hal ^b   Fafaul, Bryan ^c   Pszcolka, Steve ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosols; Climate; clouds; radiative forcing; total solar irradiance

Indexed keywords

A-TRAIN; CLIMATE; FORCINGS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURE CHANGE; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES; SOLAR VARIABILITY; TERRESTRIAL AEROSOLS; TOTAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLIMATE MODELS; CLOUDS; NASA; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 78649563196     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.865013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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