Articles | Volume 6, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2455-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-2455-2013
Research article
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23 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2013

Validation and empirical correction of MODIS AOT and AE over ocean

N. A. J. Schutgens, M. Nakata, and T. Nakajima

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