Retrieval of temperature and tangent altitude pointing from limb emission spectra recorded from space by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2003, Pages

  von Clarmann, T ^a   Glatthor, N ^a   Grabowski, U ^a   Hopfner M ^a   Kellmann, S ^a   Kiefer, M ^a   Linden, A ^a   Tsidu, G M ^a   Milz, M ^a   Steck, T ^a   Stiller, G P ^a   Wang, D Y ^a   Fischer, H ^a   Funke, B ^b   Gil Lopez S ^b   Lopez Puertas M ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Instruments and techniques; MIPAS; Remote sensing; Retrieval; Tangent altitudes

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; EMISSION; INTERFEROMETER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1342290460     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jd003602     Document Type: Article

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