Evaluation of spatio-temporal variability of Hamburg Aerosol Climatology against aerosol datasets from MODIS and CALIOP

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 8381-8399

  Pappas, V ^a   Hatzianastassiou, N ^a   Papadimas, C ^a   Matsoukas, C ^b   Kinne, S ^c   Vardavas, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AEROSOL FORMATION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MODIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY];

EID: 84883177258     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-8381-2013     Document Type: Article

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