Deriving the effect of wind speed on clean marine aerosol optical properties using the A-Train satellites

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 11401-11413

  Kiliyanpilakkil, V P ^a   Meskhidze, N ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; CALIPSO; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; OPTICAL DEPTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE WIND; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 81255150489     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-11401-2011     Document Type: Article

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