Metrology of ground-based satellite validation: Co-location mismatch and smoothing issues of total ozone comparisons

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 5039-5062

  Verhoelst, T ^a   Granville, J ^a   Hendrick, F ^a   Kohler, U ^b   Lerot, C ^a   Pommereau, J P ^c   Redondas, A ^d   Van Roozendael, M ^a   Lambert, J C ^a  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Izaña Atmospheric Research Center AEMET   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVISAT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERS; GOME; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; METOP; POLAR VORTEX; SATELLITE DATA; SCIAMACHY; SMOOTHING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOTAL OZONE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84942625435     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-5039-2015     Document Type: Article

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