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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