Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-847-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-847-2014
Research article
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24 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2014

Sensitivity of aerosol retrieval to geometrical configuration of ground-based sun/sky radiometer observations

B. Torres, O. Dubovik, C. Toledano, A. Berjon, V. E. Cachorro, T. Lapyonok, P. Litvinov, and P. Goloub

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