Light absorption from particulate impurities in snow and ice determined by spectrophotometric analysis of filters

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 2037-2048

  Grenfell, Thomas C ^a   Doherty, Sarah J ^a   Clarke, Antony D ^b   Warren, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CARBON; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; INSTRUMENT TESTING; INTEGRATION TESTING; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION;

ABSORPTION OF SOLAR RADIATION; ABSORPTION PROPERTY; CALIBRATION STANDARD; PARTICULATE MATERIALS; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH BAND; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 79958734873     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002037     Document Type: Article

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