On the signature of the cirrus twilight zone

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Wollner, Uri ^a   Koren, Ilan ^a   Altaratz, Orit ^a   Remer, Lorraine A ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

aerosols; cirrus; twilight

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; TWILIGHT; TWILIGHT ZONE;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWILIGHT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84907706560     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094010     Document Type: Article

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