Atmospheric composition and thermodynamic retrievals from the ARIES airborne TIR-FTS system - Part 2: Validation and results from aircraft campaigns

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4401-4416

  Allen, G ^a   Illingworth, S M ^a   O'Shea, S J ^a   Newman, S ^b   Vance, A ^b   Bauguitte, S J B ^c   Marenco, F ^b   Kent, J ^b   Bower, K ^a   Gallagher, M W ^a   Muller, J ^a   Percival, C J ^a   Harlow, C ^b   Lee, J ^d   Taylor, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; NADIR; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; THERMODYNAMICS; TRACE GAS;

GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84909611730     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-7-4401-2014     Document Type: Article

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