Mid-upper tropospheric methane retrieval from IASI and its validation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2255-2265

  Xiong, X ^a   Barnet, C ^a   Maddy, E S ^a,b   Gambacorta, A ^a   King, T S ^a   Wofsy, S C ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; LATITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANE; NOAA SATELLITE; TROPOSPHERE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84883624233     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-2255-2013     Document Type: Article

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