GOME level 1-to-2 data processor version 3.0: A major upgrade of the GOME/ERS-2 total ozone retrieval algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 33, 2005, Pages 7196-7209

  Spurr, Robert ^a   Loyola, Diego ^b   Thomas, Werner ^b,c   Balzer, Wolfgang ^b   Mikusch, Eberhard ^b   Aberle, Bernd ^b   Slijkhuis, Sander ^b   Ruppert, Thomas ^b   Van Roozendael, Michel ^d   Lambert, Jean Christopher ^d   Soebijanta, Trisnanto ^d  

^a RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; OZONE; SPECTROSCOPY;

DATA PROCESSOR; OZONE MONITORING; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

OZONE;

AIR POLLUTANT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OZONE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SOFTWARE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 29144476425     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007196     Document Type: Article

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