Improved tropospheric ozone profile retrievals using OMI and TES radiances

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Worden, John ^a   Liu, Xiong ^b   Bowman, Kevin ^a   Chance, Kelly ^b   Beer, Reinhard ^a   Eldering, Annmarie ^a   Gunson, Michael ^a   Worden, Helen ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BOUNDARY LAYERS; INFRARED IMAGING; OZONE; ULTRAVIOLET DETECTORS;

OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENT; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETER; TROPOSPHERIC TRACE GASES;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; OZONE; RADIANCE; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 34548049741     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027806     Document Type: Article

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