Articles | Volume 14, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-11493-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-11493-2014
Research article
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31 Oct 2014
Research article |  | 31 Oct 2014

AERONET-based models of smoke-dominated aerosol near source regions and transported over oceans, and implications for satellite retrievals of aerosol optical depth

A. M. Sayer, N. C. Hsu, T. F. Eck, A. Smirnov, and B. N. Holben

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