Accounting for surface reflectance anisotropy in satellite retrievals of tropospheric NO2

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1185-1203

  Zhou, Y ^a   Brunner, D ^a   Spurr, R J D ^b   Boersma, K F ^c   Sneep, M ^c   Popp, C ^a   Buchmann, B ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; ALBEDO; ANISOTROPY; DATA SET; MODIS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EUROPE;

LAMBERTIA;

EID: 84862833427     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-3-1185-2010     Document Type: Article

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