Articles | Volume 13, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3939-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3939-2020
Research article
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22 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2020

Inversion of multiangular polarimetric measurements from the ACEPOL campaign: an application of improving aerosol property and hyperspectral ocean color retrievals

Meng Gao, Peng-Wang Zhai, Bryan A. Franz, Kirk Knobelspiesse, Amir Ibrahim, Brian Cairns, Susanne E. Craig, Guangliang Fu, Otto Hasekamp, Yongxiang Hu, and P. Jeremy Werdell

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