Reevaluation of long-term Umkehr data and ozone profiles at Japanese stations

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Miyagawa, Koji ^a   Sasaki, Toru ^a   Nakane, Hideaki ^b   Petropavlovskikh, Irina ^c   Evans, Robert D ^d  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; OZONE LAYER; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ANTARCTIC STATIONS; DATA SETS; INTERCOMPARISONS; LIDAR OBSERVATION; LONG-TERM CHANGES; N VALUE; OZONE PROFILES; OZONE SONDES; REFERENCE INSTRUMENTS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; STEP CHANGES; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE MEASUREMENTS; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE; VERTICAL PROFILE;

OZONE;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; LIDAR; OZONE; OZONESONDE; RECONSTRUCTION; TIME SERIES; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; ZENITH ANGLE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 67649128744     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010658     Document Type: Article

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