Articles | Volume 6, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3257-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3257-2013
Research article
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27 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 27 Nov 2013

Improvements to the OMI near-UV aerosol algorithm using A-train CALIOP and AIRS observations

O. Torres, C. Ahn, and Z. Chen

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