Evaluating a new homogeneous total ozone climate data record from GOME/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/envisat, and GOME-2/MetOp-a

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 12,296-12,312

  Koukouli, M E ^a   Lerot, C ^b   Granville, J ^b   Goutail, F ^c   Lambert, J C ^b   Pommereau, J P ^c   Balis, D ^a   Zyrichidou, I ^a   Van Roozendael, M ^b   Coldewey Egbers, M ^d   Loyola, D ^d   Labow, G ^e   Frith, S ^e   Spurr, R ^f   Zehner, C ^g  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f RT Solutions Inc   (United States)

^g ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; DATA SET; MONITORING SYSTEM; SATELLITE SENSOR; SCIAMACHY; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TOTAL OZONE; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84948822769     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023699     Document Type: Article

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