Airborne DOAS limb measurements of tropospheric trace gas profiles: Case studies on the profile retrieval of O 4 and BrO

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1241-1260

  Prados Roman, C ^a,f   Butz, A ^b,g   Deutschmann, T ^a   Dorf, M ^a   Kritten, L ^a,h   Minikin, A ^c   Platt, U ^a   Schlager, H ^c   Sihler, H ^a,d   Theys, N ^e   Van Roozendael, M ^e   Wagner, T ^d   Pfeilsticker, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^f Now At: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Climate Science (CIAC) CSIC   (Spain)

^g KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BALLOON OBSERVATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; HALOGEN; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADICAL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETER; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; TRACE GAS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERTICAL PROFILE; VISIBLE SPECTRUM;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 80052691138     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-1241-2011     Document Type: Article

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