Total ozone column derived from GOME and SCIAMACHY using KNMI retrieval algorithms: Validation against Brewer measurements at the Iberian Peninsula

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Anton M ^a   Kroon, M ^b   Lopez M ^c   Vilaplana, J M ^d   Banon M ^c   Van Der A, R ^b   Veefkind, J P ^b   Stammes, P ^b   Alados Arboledas, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c Departamento de Producción Agencia Estatal de Meteorología ^*  (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; CO-LOCATED; DATA SETS; FAST RETRIEVAL SCHEME FOR CLOUDS FROM THE OXYGEN A BANDS; GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENTS; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED DATA; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NETHERLANDS; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING INSTRUMENTS; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CHARTOGRAPHY; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; SEASONALITY; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN; ZENITH ANGLE;

OZONE;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLEAR SKY; DATA SET; GOME; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; OZONE; SCIAMACHY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ZENITH ANGLE;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 81755178962     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016436     Document Type: Article

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