Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-499-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-499-2018
Research article
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24 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 24 Jan 2018

Minimum aerosol layer detection sensitivities and their subsequent impacts on aerosol optical thickness retrievals in CALIPSO level 2 data products

Travis D. Toth, James R. Campbell, Jeffrey S. Reid, Jason L. Tackett, Mark A. Vaughan, Jianglong Zhang, and Jared W. Marquis

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Campbell, J. R., Reid, J. S., Westphal, D. L., Zhang, J., Tackett, J. L., Chew, B. N., Welton, E. J., Shimizu, A., Sugimoto, N., and Aoki, K.: Characterizing the vertical profile of aerosol particle extinction and linear depolarization over Southeast Asia and the Maritime Continent: the 2007–2009 view from CALIOP, Atmos. Res., 122, 520–543, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2012.05.007, 2013. 
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