A global comparison of carbon monoxide profiles and column amounts from Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) and Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT)

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Ho, Shu Peng ^a,b   Edwards, David P ^a   Gille, John C ^a   Luo, Ming ^c   Osterman, Gregory B ^c   Kulawik, Susan S ^c   Worden, Helen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA COMPRESSION; ERRORS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TROPOSPHERE;

APRIORI; CO CONCENTRATIONS; COLUMN AMOUNT; COMBINED EFFECT; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DATA SETS; FORWARD MODELS; MEASUREMENTS OF POLLUTION IN THE TROPOSPHERES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETERS;

NANOSENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; RADIANCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 72049116532     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012242     Document Type: Article

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