Balloon-borne limb profiling of UV/vis skylight radiances, O3, NO2, and BrO: Technical set-up and validation of the method

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1409-1422

  Weidner, F ^a   Bosch H ^a,b   Bovensmann, H ^d   Burrows, J P ^d   Butz, A ^a,c   Camy Peyret, C ^b   Dorf, C ^a   Gerilowski, K ^d   Gurlit, W ^d   Platt, U ^a   von Friedeburg, C ^a   Wagner, T ^a   Pfeilsticker, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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