Atmospheric aerosol characterization with a ground-based SPEX spectropolarimetric instrument

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4341-4351

  Van Harten, G ^a   De Boer, J ^a   Rietjens, J H H ^b   Di Noia, A ^b   Snik, F ^a   Volten, H ^c   Smit, J M ^b   Hasekamp, O P ^b   Henzing, J S ^d   Keller, C U ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERONET; AEROSOL; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; HEALTH IMPACT; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCATTERING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

CABAUW; NETHERLANDS; UTRECHT [NETHERLANDS];

EID: 84911396836     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-4341-2014     Document Type: Article

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