Articles | Volume 14, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2015-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-2015-2014
Research article
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21 Feb 2014
Research article |  | 21 Feb 2014

Comparison of MODIS 3 km and 10 km resolution aerosol optical depth retrievals over land with airborne sunphotometer measurements during ARCTAS summer 2008

J. M. Livingston, J. Redemann, Y. Shinozuka, R. Johnson, P. B. Russell, Q. Zhang, S. Mattoo, L. Remer, R. Levy, L. Munchak, and S. Ramachandran

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