Photopolarimetric retrievals of snow properties

Cryosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1933-1942

  Ottaviani, M ^a   Van Diedenhoven, B ^a,b   Cairns, B ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^b NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; ASYMMETRY; CLOUD; DATA SET; REFLECTIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SNOW;

EID: 84943763321     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-9-1933-2015     Document Type: Article

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