Atmospheric hydroxyl radical (OH) abundances from ground-based ultraviolet solar spectra: An improved retrieval method

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 6277-6284

  Cheung, Ross ^a   Li, King Fai ^a   Wang, Shuhui ^b   Pongetti, Thomas J ^b   Cageao, Richard P ^b   Sander, Stanley P ^b   Yung, Yuk L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; FITTING PRECISION; FOURIER TRANSFORM ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETER; HYDROXYL RADICALS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LONG TERM DATA RECORD; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SOLAR ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

EID: 60649102130     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.006277     Document Type: Article

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