Articles | Volume 12, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-7961-2012
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-12-7961-2012
Research article
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06 Sep 2012
Research article |  | 06 Sep 2012

Estimating cloud optical thickness and associated surface UV irradiance from SEVIRI by implementing a semi-analytical cloud retrieval algorithm

P. Pandey, K. De Ridder, D. Gillotay, and N. P. M. van Lipzig

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