Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1777-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-1777-2014
Research article
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19 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 19 Jun 2014

A novel method for estimating shortwave direct radiative effect of above-cloud aerosols using CALIOP and MODIS data

Z. Zhang, K. Meyer, S. Platnick, L. Oreopoulos, D. Lee, and H. Yu

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