Satellite ozone retrieval under broken cloud conditions: An error analysis based on monte Carlo simulations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 187-194

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a   Mayer, Bernhard ^b   Rozanov, Vladimir V ^a   Wapler, Kathrin ^b   Lamsal, Lok N ^a,c   Weber, Mark ^a   Burrows, John P ^a   Schumann, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3 D radiative transfer; Clouds; Remote sensing; Total ozone column

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

3-D RADIATIVE TRANSFER; HUGGINS BANDS; OZONE-RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN;

OZONE;

EID: 33846223205     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.886188     Document Type: Article

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