Articles | Volume 8, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3117-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3117-2015
Research article
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05 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 05 Aug 2015

High temporal resolution estimates of columnar aerosol microphysical parameters from spectrum of aerosol optical depth by linear estimation: application to long-term AERONET and star-photometry measurements

D. Pérez-Ramírez, I. Veselovskii, D. N. Whiteman, A. Suvorina, M. Korenskiy, A. Kolgotin, B. Holben, O. Dubovik, A. Siniuk, and L. Alados-Arboledas

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