Comparison of atmospheric aerosol climatologies over southwestern Spain derived from AERONET and MODIS

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1272-1284

  Bennouna, Y S ^a   Cachorro, V E ^a   Toledano, C ^a   Berjon A ^a,b   Prats, N ^a   Fuertes, D ^a   Gonzalez, R ^a   Rodrigo, R ^a   Torres, B ^a   de Frutos, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

AERONET; Aerosol climatology; Aerosol optical depth (AOD); Aerosols; Atmosphere; MODIS; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH (AOD); AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PARAMETERS; AEROSOL PRODUCT; ANNUAL MEAN; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; CONTINUOUS DATA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA SERIES; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; GROUND-BASED DATA; KEY LOCATION; LEVEL 2; LOCAL EXTREMUM; LOCAL MINIMUMS; MEAN VALUES; MODERATE RESOLUTION; MODIS; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SUMMER MONTHS; TERRA-MODIS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION; DATA SET; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; TIME SERIES;

SPAIN;

EID: 79952103661     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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