Validation of northern latitude Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer stare ozone profiles with ARC-IONS sondes during ARCTAS: Sensitivity, bias and error analysis

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 9901-9914

  Boxe, C S ^a   Worden, J R ^a   Bowman, K W ^a   Kulawik, S S ^a   Neu, J L ^a   Ford, W C ^b   Osterman, G B ^a   Herman, R L ^a   Eldering, A ^a   Tarasick, D W ^c   Thompson, A M ^d   Doughty, D C ^d   Hoffmann, M R ^b   Oltmans, S J ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ERROR ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OZONESONDE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77958479730     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-9901-2010     Document Type: Article

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