Long-term analysis of GOME in-flight calibration parameters and instrument degradation

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 4749-4761

  Coldewey Egbers, Melanie ^a   Slijkhuis, Sander ^a   Aberle, Bernd ^a   Loyola, Diego ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PIXELS;

ACCURATE CORRECTION; CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENTS; IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATION; LONG TERM STABILITY; SATELLITE ANOMALIES; SPECTRAL CALIBRATION; VISIBLE-WAVELENGTH RANGE;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 56849103689     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.004749     Document Type: Article

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