On the correspondence between surface UV observations and TOMS determinations of surface UV: A potential method for quality evaluating world surface UV observations

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 295-308

  DeLuisi, John ^a   Theisen, David ^b   Augustine, John ^a   Disterhoft, Patrick ^c   Lantz, Kathleen ^c   Weatherhead, Elizabeth ^c   Hodges, Gary ^c   Cornwall, Christopher ^c   Petropavlovskikh, Irina ^c   Stevermer, Amy ^c   Wellman, Dennis ^a   Barnett, Jennifer ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AEROJET ROCKETDYNE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Erythermal; Satellite; Surface; TOMS; Ultraviolet; UV

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE DATA; TOMS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0042626182     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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