Global validation of empirically corrected EP-Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) total ozone columns using Brewer and Dobson ground-based measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 115, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Anton M ^a,b,c   Koukouli, M E ^d   Kroon, M ^e   McPeters, R D ^f   Labow, G J ^f,g   Balis, D ^d   Serrano, A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g SSAI ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NASA; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; CALIBRATION TECHNIQUES; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; CO-LOCATED; DATA SETS; DOBSON UNITS; EARTH PROBE; GLOBAL VALIDATION; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; NEGATIVE BIAS; OZONE TRENDS; SATELLITE DATA SETS; SATELLITE PLATFORMS; SCALE VALIDATION; SEASONALITY; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN; TOTAL OZONE DATA; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; TREND ANALYSIS;

OZONE;

CALIBRATION; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LATITUDE; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; OZONE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; SPECTROMETER; TREND ANALYSIS; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 77957995110     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014178     Document Type: Article

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