High vertical resolution water vapour profiles in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere retrieved from MAESTRO solar occultation spectra

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 642-650

  Sioris, C E ^a   Zou, J ^b   McElroy, C T ^a   McLinden, C A ^a   Vomel H ^c  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Near infrared; Remote sensing; Solar occultation

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT; CONVERGENCE CRITERION; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL DEPTH SPECTRA; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SOLAR OCCULTATION; VIBRATIONAL ABSORPTION;

WATER ABSORPTION;

EID: 77955473888     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.04.040     Document Type: Article

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