Evaluation of the use of five laboratory-determined ozone absorption cross sections in Brewer and Dobson retrieval algorithms

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1635-1648

  Redondas, A ^a   Evans, R ^b   Stuebi, R ^c   Kohler U ^d   Weber, M ^e  

^a AEMET   (Spain)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^d DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 84894052566     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-1635-2014     Document Type: Article

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