Neural network scheme for the retrieval of total ozone from global ozone monitoring experiment data

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5051-5058

  Müller, Martin D ^a   Kaifel, Anton ^a   Weber, Mark ^b   Burrows, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAPPING; MONITORING; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENT (GOME); TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS);

OZONE;

EID: 0037143943     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.005051     Document Type: Article

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