Retrieval of global upper tropospheric and stratospheric formaldehyde (H2CO) distributions from high-resolution MIPAS-Envisat spectra

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 463-470

  Steck, T ^a,d   Glatthor, N ^a   Von Clarmann, T ^a   Fischer, H ^a   Flaud, J M ^b   Funke, B ^c   Grabowski, U ^a   Hopfner M ^a   Kellmann, S ^a   Linden, A ^a   Perrin, A ^b   Stiller, G P ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d Kepler Gymnasium   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ENVISAT-1; FORMALDEHYDE; FOURIER TRANSFORM; RESOLUTION; SPECTRUM; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 38849193360     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-463-2008     Document Type: Article

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