The SPARC data initiative: Comparison of upper troposphere/lower stratosphere ozone climatologies from limb-viewing instruments and the nadir-viewing tropospheric emission spectrometer

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6971-6990

  Neu, J L ^a   Hegglin, M I ^b   Tegtmeier, S ^c   Bourassa, A ^d   Degenstein, D ^d   Froidevaux, L ^a   Fuller, R ^a   Funke, B ^e   Gille, J ^f   Jones, A ^g   Rozanov, A ^h   Toohey, M ^c   Von Clarmann, T ⁱ   Walker, K A ^g   Worden, J R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

ⁱ KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS; TROPOSPHERE;

CHEMISTRY-CLIMATE MODELS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; TROPOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETERS; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NADIR; OZONE; SEASONAL VARIATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 84903287199     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020822     Document Type: Article

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