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Preliminary investigations toward nighttime aerosol optical depth retrievals from the VIIRS Day/Night Band
R. S. Johnson
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
E. J. Hyer
Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USA
S. D. Miller
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
J. S. Reid
Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, USA
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