N2O and O3 arctic column amounts from PARIS-IR observations: Retrievals, characterization and error analysis

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 385-406

  Sung, Keeyoon ^a   Skelton, Randall ^a   Walker, Kaley A ^a   Boone, Chris D ^a   Fu, Dejian ^a   Bernath, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic stratosphere; AStrO; Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE); Averaging kernel; Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign; Eureka; Fourier transform infrared absorption spectra; PARIS IR; PEARL; SFIT2

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE; SOLAR ABSORBERS;

ARCTIC STRATOSPHERE; AVERAGING KERNEL; GROUND-BASED SOLAR ABSORPTION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; NITROUS OXIDE; OZONE; SPECTROMETER; STRATOSPHERE;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 34548183337     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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