Nabro volcano aerosol in the stratosphere over Georgia, South Caucasus from ground-based spectrometry of twilight sky brightness

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2563-2576

  Mateshvili, N ^a,b   Fussen, D ^a   Mateshvili, G ^b   Mateshvili, I ^b   Vanhellemont, F ^a   Kyrola, E ^c   Tukiainen, S ^c   Kujanpaa J ^c   Bingen, C ^a   Robert, C ^a   Tetard C ^a   Dekemper, E ^a  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Georgia)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; STRATOSPHERE; TWILIGHT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVELENGTH; ZENITH ANGLE;

ETHIOPIA; GEORGIA; NABRO; UNITED STATES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 84885365616     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-2563-2013     Document Type: Article

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