Homogenized total ozone data records from the european sensors gome/ers-2, SCIAMACHY/envisat, and GOME-2/MetOp-A

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1639-1662

  Lerot, C ^a   van Roozendael, M ^a   Spurr, R ^b   Loyola, D ^c   Coldewey Egbers, M ^c   Kochenova, S ^a   van Gent, J ^a   Koukouli, M ^d   Balis, D ^d   Lambert, J C ^a   Granville, J ^a   Zehner, C ^e  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA HANDLING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REFLECTION; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS;

COMPUTATIONAL PERFORMANCE; GLOBAL OZONE MONITORING EXPERIMENTS; GROUND-BASED VALIDATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER TOOLS; RETRIEVAL; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CARTOGRAPHIES (SCIAMACHY); SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES; TROPOSPHERIC OZONE CLIMATOLOGY;

OZONE;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; ENVISAT-1; ERS-2; GOME; METOP; OZONE; PRECISION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SCIAMACHY; TOMS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84899018405     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020831     Document Type: Article

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