Improving total column ozone retrievals by using cloud pressures derived from Raman scattering in the UV

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Vasilkov, Alexander P ^a   Joiner, Joanna ^b   Yang, Kai ^a   Bhartia, Pawan K ^b  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

0320 Atmospheric composition and structure: Cloud physics and chemistry; 0360 Atmospheric composition and structure: Transmission and scattering of radiation; 3360 Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAMAN SCATTERING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROMETERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CLOUD PRESSURE; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENT (OMI); TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETERS (TOMS);

OZONE LAYER;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; OZONE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TOMS;

EID: 11844303444     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020603     Document Type: Article

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