Aerosol retrieval experiments in the ESA Aerosol-cci project

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1919-1957

  Holzer Popp, T ^a   De Leeuw, G ^b,c,d   Griesfeller, J ^c,e   Martynenko, D ^a   Kluser L ^a   Bevan, S ^h   Davies, W ^h   Ducos, F ^g   Deuze J L ^g   Graigner, R G ⁱ   Heckel, A ^h   Von Hoyningen Hune W ^j   Kolmonen, P ^b   Litvinov, P ^g   North, P ^h   Poulsen, C A ^k   Ramon, D ⁿ   Siddans, R ^k   Sogacheva, L ^b   Tanre, D ^g   Thomas, G E ⁱ   Vountas, M ^j   Descloitres, J ^l   Kinne, S ^f   Schulz, M ^e   Pinnock, S ^m   more..

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

^e NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^g Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique CNRS   (France)

^h SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^k RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIV LILLE   (France)

^m ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

ⁿ HYGEOS   (France)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; MERIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SALT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84880881831     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-1919-2013     Document Type: Article

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