Synergistic use of AIRS and MODIS for dust top height retrieval over land

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 470-476

  Yao, Zhigang ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Zhao, Zengliang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS; Cloud Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization; dust height; MODIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922439960     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: 18619533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-014-4046-y     Document Type: Article

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