Impact of data quality and surface-to-column representativeness on the PM2.5/satellite AOD relationship for the contiguous United States

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 6049-6062

  Toth, T D ^a   Zhang, J ^a   Campbell, J R ^b   Hyer, E J ^b   Reid, J S ^b   Shi, Y ^a   Westphal, D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; MISR; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; SATELLITE DATA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902958297     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-6049-2014     Document Type: Article

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