An extended intercomparison of simultaneous ground-based Fourier transform infrared spectrometer measurements at the Toronto Atmospheric Observatory

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 12-13, 2008, Pages 2244-2260

  Taylor, Jeffrey R ^a   Wunch, Debra ^a,b   Midwinter, Clive ^a   Wiacek, Aldona ^c   Drummond, James R ^a,d   Strong, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric trace gases; FTIR; Infrared spectroscopy; Intercomparison; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; REMOTE SENSING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GASES;

SPECTROMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; STRATOSPHERE; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 44649192920     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2008.03.011     Document Type: Article

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