Validation of ozone monthly zonal mean profiles obtained from the version 8.6 Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet algorithm

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6887-6905

  Kramarova, N A ^a   Frith, S M ^a   Bhartia, P K ^b   McPeters, R D ^b   Taylor, S L ^a   Fisher, B L ^a   Labow, G J ^a   Deland, M T ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AURA (SATELLITE); CALIBRATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; OZONE; OZONESONDE; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84880895244     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-6887-2013     Document Type: Article

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