The impact of spectral resolution on satellite retrieval accuracy of CO2 and CH4

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1105-1119

  Galli, A ^a,b   Guerlet, S ^c   Butz, A ^d   Aben, I ^a   Suto, H ^e   Kuze, A ^e   Deutscher, N M ^f,g   Notholt, J ^f   Wunch, D ^h   Wennberg, P O ^h   Griffith, D W T ^g   Hasekamp, O ^a   Landgraf, J ^a  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; ERROR CORRECTION; GOSAT; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

JAPAN;

EID: 84899620383     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-1105-2014     Document Type: Article

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