Assessment and applications of NASA ozone data products derived from Aura OMI/MLS satellite measurements in context of the GMI chemical transport model

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5671-5699

  Ziemke, J R ^a,b   Olsen, M A ^a,b   Witte, J C ^c   Douglass, A R ^b   Strahan, S E ^b,d   Wargan, K ^b,c   Liu, X ^e   Schoeberl, M R ^f   Yang, K ^g   Kaplan, T B ^h   Pawson, S ^b   Duncan, B N ^b   Newman, P A ^b   Bhartia, P K ^b   Heney, M K ^c  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^g University of Maryland   (United States)

^h Innovim   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DEFORESTATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TROPOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; STRATOSPHERIC WARMINGS; VERTICAL OZONE PROFILE;

ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

AURA (SATELLITE); MAPPING; OZONE; OZONESONDE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TIMESCALE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84901713103     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020914     Document Type: Article

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