Quantitative bias estimates for tropospheric NO2 columns retrieved from SCIAMACHY, OMI, and GOME-2 using a common standard for East Asia

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2403-2411

  Irie, H ^a   Boersma, K F ^b,c   Kanaya, Y ^d   Takashima, H ^d,e   Pan, X ^d   Wang, Z F ^f  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

FAR EAST;

EID: 84880516880     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-2403-2012     Document Type: Article

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