Improvement of omi ozone profile retrievals in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere by the use of a tropopause-based ozone profile climatology

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2239-2254

  Bak, J ^a   Liu, X ^b   Wei, J C ^c,d   Pan, L L ^e   Chance, K ^b   Kim, J H ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c ADNET SYSTEMS INC   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COORDINATE; OZONE; OZONESONDE; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84883535994     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-2239-2013     Document Type: Article

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