Seasonal and spatial variations of global aerosol optical depth: multi-year modelling with GEOS-Chem-APM and comparisons with multiple-platform observations

Xiaoyan Ma; Fangqun Yu

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v67.25115

Seasonal and spatial variations of global aerosol optical depth: multi-year modelling with GEOS-Chem-APM and comparisons with multiple-platform observations

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 67 (2015): Issue 1

By: Xiaoyan Ma and Fangqun Yu

Open Access

|Jan 2015

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