Aerosol retrievals from channel-1 and -2 AVHRR radiances: Long-term trends updated and revisited

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1974-1980

  Mishchenko, Michael I ^a   Liu, Li ^b   Geogdzhayev, Igor V ^b   Li, Jing ^a   Carlson, Barbara E ^a   Lacis, Andrew A ^a   Cairns, Brian ^a   Travis, Larry D ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Brightening and dimming; Global climate change; Remote sensing; Tropospheric aerosols

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL THICKNESS; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; GLOBAL ABSORPTION; GLOBAL AEROSOL; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GLOBAL DIMMING; GRADUAL TRANSITION; IMAGINARY PARTS; LONG-TERM TREND; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SINGLE-SCATTERING ALBEDO; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AVHRR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

PINATUBO;

EID: 84864006384     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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