Nadir measurements of carbon monoxide distributions by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument onboard the Aura Spacecraft: Overview of analysis approach and examples of initial results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Rinsland, Curtis P ^a   Luo, Ming ^b   Logan, Jennifer A ^c   Beer, Reinhard ^b   Worden, Helen ^b   Rider, Davis ^b   Osterman, Greg ^b   Gunson, Michael ^b   Eldering, Annmarie ^b   Goldman, Aaron ^d   Shephard, Mark ^e   Clough, Shepard A ^e   Rodgers, Clive ^f   Lampel, Michael ^g   Chiou, Linda ^h  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^e ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^h SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CARBON MONOXIDE; GAS EMISSIONS; SPECTROMETERS; TROPOSPHERE;

FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETER; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECROMETER (TES);

METEOROLOGY;

CARBON MONOXIDE; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; NADIR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34347355090     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027000     Document Type: Article

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