The GOME-type Total Ozone Essential Climate Variable (GTO-ECV) data record from the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 3923-3940

  Coldewey Egbers, M ^a   Loyola, D G ^a   Koukouli, M ^b   Balis, D ^b   Lambert, J C ^c   Verhoelst, T ^c   Granville, J ^c   Van Roozendael, M ^c   Lerot, C ^c   Spurr, R ^d   Frith, S M ^e   Zehner, C ^f  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^d RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GOME; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OZONE; SCIAMACHY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EUROPE;

EID: 84942604533     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-3923-2015     Document Type: Article

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