Rigorous determination of stratospheric water vapor trends from MIPAS observations

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 103, 2011, Pages A340-A360

  Ceccherini, Simone ^a   Carli, Bruno ^a   Raspollini, Piera ^a   Ridolfi, Marco ^b  

^a Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

MEASUREMENT SPACES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; POSITIVE VALUE; PRIORI INFORMATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VERTICAL GRIDS;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84860886803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00A340     Document Type: Article

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