Quality assessment of O3 profiles measured by a state-of-the-art ground-based FTIR observing system

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 5579-5588

  Schneider, M ^a   Hase, F ^a   Blumenstock, T ^a   Redondas, A ^b   Cuevas, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b Centro de Investigación de Izaña   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; OZONE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 52649148631     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-5579-2008     Document Type: Article

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