Performance of the ozone mapping and profiler suite (OMPS) products

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6181-6195

  Flynn, L ^a   Long, C ^a   Wu, X ^a   Evans, R ^a   Beck, C T ^a   Petropavlovskikh, I ^b   McConville, G ^b   Yu, W ^c   Zhang, Z ^c   Niu, J ^c,d   Beach, E ^c   Hao, Y ^c   Pan, C ^e   Sen, B ^f   Novicki, M ^f   Zhou, S ^g   Seftor, C ^h  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b CIRES ^*  (United States)

^c IMSG   (United States)

^d SRG   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^g Wyle Information Systems   (United States)

^h SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MAPPING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CALIBRATION AND VALIDATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS; NATIONAL AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE ADMINISTRATIONS; OZONE MAPPING AND PROFILER SUITES; POLAR SATELLITE SYSTEMS; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; VALIDATION; VERTICAL OZONE PROFILE;

OZONE;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; MAPPING METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; OZONE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIATION BALANCE; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84902814956     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020467     Document Type: Article

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