Errors resulting from assuming opaque Lambertian clouds in TOMS ozone retrieval

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 85, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 337-365

  Liu, X ^a   Newchurch, M J ^a   Loughman, R ^b   Bhartia, P K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Opaque Lambertian clouds; Ozone retrieval; TOMS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERROR ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS;

TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETERS (TOMS);

OZONE;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; TOMS;

EID: 1542378272     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(03)00231-0     Document Type: Article

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