Asian dust height and infrared optical depth retrievals over land from hyperspectral longwave infrared radiances

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2012, Pages

  Yao, Zhigang ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Han, Hyo Jin ^b   Huang, Allen ^a   Sohn, B J ^b   Zhang, Peng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; DUST; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS;

ASIAN DUST; ASIAN DUST STORM; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BACKSCATTER PROFILES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR WITH ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; DATA SETS; DUNHUANG; DUST STORM; GROUND OBSERVATIONS; HYPERSPECTRAL; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LONG WAVE INFRARED; MINERAL DUST; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL DEPTH RETRIEVALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF AEROSOLS; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE MEASUREMENT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; THERMAL INFRARED;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIRS; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; DUST; DUST STORM; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; INFRARED RADIATION; LIDAR; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICLE SIZE; SCATTERING; WEATHER STATION;

CHINA; TAKLIMAKAN DESERT; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84867542416     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JD017799     Document Type: Article

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