Evaluation of the GOME Water Vapor Climatology 1995-2002

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Lang, Ruediger ^a,e   Casadio, S ^b,d   Maurellis, A N ^c   Lawrence, M G ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^e EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOSONDES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

AIR MASS; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION; ENVISAT-1; GOME; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MERIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 35748965590     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JD008246     Document Type: Article

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