Sixteen years of GOME/ERS-2 total ozone data: The new direct-fitting GOME Data Processor (GDP) version 5Algorithm description

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Van Roozendael, M ^a   Spurr, R ^b   Loyola, D ^c   Lerot, C ^a   Balis, D ^d   Lambert, J C ^a   Zimmer, W ^c   Van Gent, J ^a   Van Geffen, J ^a   Koukouli, M ^d   Granville, J ^a   Doicu, A ^c   Fayt, C ^a   Zehner, C ^e  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b RT Solutions Inc ^*  (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY;

AIR MASS FACTOR; BREWER SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; DATA PROCESSORS; DATA RECORDS; EARTHSHINE RADIANCE; FITTING PARAMETERS; FLIGHT MODELS; GROUND-BASED NETWORK; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-PASS FILTERING; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; JACOBIANS; LONG TERM STABILITY; MOLECULAR RINGS; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; OZONE ABSORPTION; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; OZONE PROFILES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; SEASONAL DEPENDENCE; SEMI-EMPIRICAL; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; SPECTRAL FITTING; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TOTAL OZONE; TOTAL OZONE COLUMN; TOTAL OZONE DATA; UNDER-SAMPLING; VALIDATION RESULTS; VERTICAL COLUMNS;

OZONE;

AIR MASS; ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DATABASE; ERS-2; GOME; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES; VERTICAL PROFILE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84857083229     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016471     Document Type: Article

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