Inversion of tropospheric profiles of aerosol extinction and HCHO and NO2 mixing ratios from MAX-DOAS observations in Milano during the summer of 2003 and comparison with independent data sets

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2685-2715

  Wagner, T ^a   Beirle, S ^a   Brauers, T ^b   Deutschmann, T ^c   Friess U ^c   Hak, C ^c,f   Halla, J D ^d   Heue, K P ^a   Junkermann, W ^e   Li, X ^b   Platt, U ^c   Pundt Gruber, I ^c,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^g Johannes Kepler Gymnasium ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; FORMALDEHYDE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INVERSION LAYER; MIXING RATIO; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OPTICAL DEPTH; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SUMMER; TROPOSPHERE;

ITALY; LOMBARDY; MILANO [LOMBARDY];

EID: 84864529315     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-2685-2011     Document Type: Article

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