Improvement of aerosol optical depth retrieval from MODIS spectral reflectance over the global ocean using new aerosol models archived from AERONET inversion data and tri-axial ellipsoidal dust database

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 7087-7102

  Lee, J ^a,b,c   Kim, J ^a,d   Yang, P ^e   Hsu, N C ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOMETER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 84864582048     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-7087-2012     Document Type: Article

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