Global tropospheric ozone column retrievals from OMI data by means of neural networks

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 895-915

  Di Noia, A ^a,b,d   Sellitto, P ^c   Del Frate, F ^a   De Laat, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

^d SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DATA SET; OZONE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84882809473     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-895-2013     Document Type: Article

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