Response to "Toward unified satellite climatology of aerosol properties. 3. MODIS versus MISR versus AERONET"

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 901-909

  Kahn, Ralph A ^a   Garay, Michael J ^b   Nelson, David L ^b   Levy, Robert C ^c   Bull, Michael A ^d   Diner, David J ^d   Martonchik, John V ^d   Hansen, Earl G ^d   Remer, Lorraine A ^a   Tanré, Didier ^e  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Aerosol retrieval; MISR; MODIS; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PRODUCT; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; ANALYSIS APPROACH; MISR; MODIS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION;

CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79451475779     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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