Geophysical validation and long-term consistency between GOME-2/MetOp-A total ozone column and measurements from the sensors GOME/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT and OMI/Aura

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2169-2181

  Koukouli, M E ^a   Balis, D S ^a   Loyola, D ^b   Valks, P ^b   Zimmer, W ^b   Hao, N ^b   Lamber, J C ^c   Van Roozendael, M ^c   Lerot, C ^c   Spurr, R J D ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; AURA (SATELLITE); ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GOME; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; SCIAMACHY;

EID: 84867549596     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2169-2012     Document Type: Article

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