Statistical variability of top of atmosphere cloud-free shortwave aerosol radiative effect
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Statistical variability of top of atmosphere cloud-free shortwave aerosol radiative effect
The statistical variability of globally averaged MODIS aerosol optical thickness at 0.55μm (AOT) and top of atmosphere CERES cloud-free shortwave radiative effect (SWRE) is presented. Statistical variability is defined as the robustness of globally averaged statistics relative to data distribution. At the CERES footprint level, which we label “raw data”, both the AOT and SWRE data derived from ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1680-7324
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-2937-2007