Strato-mesospheric ClO observations by SMILES: Error analysis and diurnal variation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2809-2825

  Sato, T O ^a,b   Sagawa, H ^b   Kreyling, D ^b   Manabe, T ^c   Ochiai, S ^b   Kikuchi, K ^b   Baron, P ^b   Mendrok, J ^b,d   Urban, J ^e   Murtagh, D ^e   Yasui, M ^b   Kasai, Y ^a,b  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Osaka City University   (Japan)

^d LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE DEPLETION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; STRATOSPHERE; UARS;

EID: 84879930549     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2809-2012     Document Type: Article

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