Sensitivity of Dobson and Brewer Umkehr ozone profile retrievals to ozone cross-sections and stray light effects

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1841-1853

  Petropavlovskikh, I ^a   Evans, R ^b   McConville, G ^a   Oltmans, S ^b   Quincy, D ^a   Lantz, K ^a   Disterhoft, P ^a   Stanek, M ^c   Flynn, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CZECH HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRUM; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OZONE; REMOTE SENSING; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84857739492     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-1841-2011     Document Type: Article

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