Articles | Volume 6, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1245-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1245-2013
Research article
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14 May 2013
Research article |  | 14 May 2013

Preliminary investigations toward nighttime aerosol optical depth retrievals from the VIIRS Day/Night Band

R. S. Johnson, J. Zhang, E. J. Hyer, S. D. Miller, and J. S. Reid

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