Ozone profile and tropospheric ozone retrievals from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment: Algorithm description and validation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 1-19

  Liu, X ^a   Chance, K ^a   Sioris, C E ^a   Spurr, R J D ^a,b   Kurosu, T P ^a   Martin, R V ^a,d   Newchurch, M J ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; MONITORING; OZONE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 28844505145     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006240     Document Type: Article

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