Articles | Volume 13, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-675-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-675-2013
Research article
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18 Jan 2013
Research article |  | 18 Jan 2013

Assessment of the Level-3 MODIS daily aerosol optical depth in the context of surface solar radiation and numerical weather modeling

J. A. Ruiz-Arias, J. Dudhia, C. A. Gueymard, and D. Pozo-Vázquez

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