Surface ultraviolet irradiance from OMI

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1267-1271

  Tanskanen, Aapo ^a,d,e   Krotkov, Nickolay A ^b   Herman, Jay R ^c,f,g   Arola, Antti ^a  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d FMI   (Finland)

^e OMI Science Team ^*  (Finland)

^f Earth UV Radiation Project

^g AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Software verification and validation; Solar radiation; Ultraviolet radiation effects

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CONTIGUOUS MAPPING; POSTPROCESSING AEROSOL CORRECTION; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION EFFECTS;

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OZONE; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33646393291     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862203     Document Type: Article

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