Observation of strato-mesospheric CO above Kiruna with ground-based microwave radiometry - Retrieval and satellite comparison

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2389-2408

  Hoffmann, C G ^a   Raffalski, U ^b   Palm, M ^a   Funke, B ^c   Golchert, S H W ^a   Hochschild, G ^d   Notholt, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF SPACE PHYSICS   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AURA (SATELLITE); CARBON MONOXIDE; DATA SET; ENVISAT-1; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TIME SERIES; TRACER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

KIRUNA; NORRBOTTEN; SWEDEN;

EID: 84857752395     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-2389-2011     Document Type: Article

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