Tropospheric ozone distributions over Europe during the heat wave in July 2007 observed from infrared nadir spectra recorded by IASI

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2008, Pages

  Eremenko, M ^a   Dufour, G ^a   Foret, G ^a   Keim, C ^a   Orphal, J ^a   Beekmann, M ^a   Bergametti, G ^a   Flaud, J M ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OZONE;

EASTERN EUROPE; HEAT WAVES; REGULARIZATION METHODS; TRANSPORT MODELS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONES;

TROPOSPHERE;

BALLOON OBSERVATION; NADIR; OZONE; SIMULATION; SIR; TROPOSPHERE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 57849084898     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034803     Document Type: Article

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