Round-robin evaluation of nadir ozone profile retrievals: Methodology and application to MetOp-A GOME-2

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2093-2120

  Keppens, A ^a   Lambert, J C ^a   Granville, J ^a   Miles, G ^b   Siddans, R ^b   Van Peet, J C A ^c   Van Der A, R J ^c   Hubert, D ^a   Verhoelst, T ^a   Delcloo, A ^d   Godin Beekmann, S ^e   Kivi, R ^f   Stubi R ^g   Zehner, C ^h  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^h ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BACKSCATTER; GOME; LIDAR; METOP; NADIR; OZONE; OZONESONDE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84930225647     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-2093-2015     Document Type: Article

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