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Retrieval of aerosol optical thickness for desert conditions using MERIS observations during the SAMUM campaign

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
Volume 61 (2009): Issue 1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00391.x | Journal eISSN: 1600-0889
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Language: English
Page range: 229 - 238
Submitted on: Feb 10, 2008
Accepted on: Aug 14, 2008
Published on: Jan 1, 2009
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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© 2009 Tilman Dinter, Wolfgang Von Hoyningen-Huene, John P. Burrows, Alexander Kokhanovsky, Eike Bierwirth, Manfred Wendisch, Detlef Müller, Ralph Kahn, Mohammed Diouri, published by Stockholm University Press
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