Three years of greenhouse gas column-averaged dry air mole fractions retrieved from satellite - Part 1: Carbon dioxide

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3827-3853

  Schneising, O ^a   Buchwitz, M ^a   Burrows, J P ^a   Bovensmann, H ^a   Reuter, M ^a   Notholt, J ^a   MacAtangay, R ^a   Warneke, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMISSION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANE; SATELLITE;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 47849113690     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-3827-2008     Document Type: Article

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