Discrimination of aerosol types and validation of MODIS aerosol and water vapour products using a sun photometer over central India

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 682-693

  Kannemadugu, Hareef Baba Shaeb ^a   Varghese, Alappat O ^a   Mukkara, Sivaprasad R ^a   Joshi, Ashok K ^a   Moharil, Sanjiv V ^b  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b RTM NAGPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aerosol types; Central India; MODIS; Validation; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIOMASS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER VAPOR;

AEROSOL OPTICAL PROPERTY; AEROSOL TYPES; BIOMASS BURNING REGIONS; CENTRAL INDIA; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; VALIDATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; BIOMASS BURNING; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHOTOMETER; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER VAPOR;

INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; NAGPUR;

EID: 84925937185     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2014.04.0088     Document Type: Article

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