NDACC/SAOZ UV-visible total ozone measurements: Improved retrieval and comparison with correlative ground-based and satellite observations

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5975-5995

  Hendrick, F ^a   Pommereau, J P ^b   Goutail, F ^b   Evans, R D ^c   Ionov, D ^b,d   Pazmino, A ^b   Kyro E ^e   Held, G ^f   Eriksen, P ^g   Dorokhov, V ^h   Gil, M ⁱ   Van Roozendael, M ^a  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^g DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^h CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MASS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOME; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCIAMACHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; STRATOSPHERE; TOMS; TOTAL OZONE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79960152508     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-5975-2011     Document Type: Article

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