Aerosol optical depth measured at different coastal boundary layers and its links with synoptic-scale features

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 557-576

  Ponczkowska, Agnieszka ^a   Zielinski, Tymon ^a   Petelski, Tomasz ^a   Markowicz, Krzysztof ^b   Chourdakis, Giorgos ^c   Georgoussis, Giorgos ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Coastal area; Relative topography; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AEROSOL SCATTERING; COASTAL AREA; COASTAL BOUNDARY LAYERS; INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS; JET STREAMS; RELATIVE TOPOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL VARIATION; SPITSBERGEN; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

COASTAL ZONES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 80051677837     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1030557     Document Type: Article

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