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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3375-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3375-2020
Research article
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26 Jun 2020
Research article |  | 26 Jun 2020

The AERONET Version 3 aerosol retrieval algorithm, associated uncertainties and comparisons to Version 2

Alexander Sinyuk, Brent N. Holben, Thomas F. Eck, David M. Giles, Ilya Slutsker, Sergey Korkin, Joel S. Schafer, Alexander Smirnov, Mikhail Sorokin, and Alexei Lyapustin

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