Monitoring air quality from space: The case for the geostationary platform

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-233

  Lahoz, W A ^a,b   Peuch, V H ^c   Orphal, J ^d   Attie J L ^b,e   Chance, K ^f   Liu, X ^f   Edwards, D ^g   Elbern, H ^h,i   Flaud, J M ^j   Claeyman, M ^b,e   El Amraoui, L ^c  

^a Institutt for Luftforskning   (Norway)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

ⁱ FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^j LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE SYSTEMS; FORECAST PRODUCTS; SCIENTIFIC ISSUES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS;

AIR QUALITY;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84863140880     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00045.1     Document Type: Article

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