Total ozone mapping spectrometer retrievals of noon erythemal-CIE ultraviolet irradiance compared with Brewer ground-based measurements at El Arenosillo (southwestern Spain)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Anton M ^a   Cachorro, V E ^b   Vilaplana, J M ^c   Krotkov, N A ^d   Serrano, A ^a   Toledano, Chiqui ^b   de la Morena, B ^c   Herman, J R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; DUST; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AEROSOL; AIR MASS; CLOUD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; OPTICAL PROPERTY; TOMS; TOTAL OZONE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; GULF OF CADIZ; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 34548070582     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007254     Document Type: Article

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