Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6049-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-6049-2014
Research article
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20 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 20 Jun 2014

Impact of data quality and surface-to-column representativeness on the PM2.5 / satellite AOD relationship for the contiguous United States

T. D. Toth, J. Zhang, J. R. Campbell, E. J. Hyer, J. S. Reid, Y. Shi, and D. L. Westphal

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