The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: Instrument design, calibration, and level 1 data processing - An overview

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1279-1301

  Munro, Rosemary ^a   Lang, Rudiger ^a   Klaes, Dieter ^a   Poli, Gabriele ^a   Retscher, Christian ^a   Lindstrot, Rasmus ^a   Huckle, Roger ^a   Lacan, Antoine ^a   Grzegorski, Michael ^a   Holdak, Andriy ^a   Kokhanovsky, Alexander ^a   Livschitz, Jakob ^b   Eisinger, Michael ^c  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c European Space Agency European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ESA ECSAT)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN; FUTURE PROSPECT; GOME; LITERATURE REVIEW; PUBLISHING; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 84962148612     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-1279-2016     Document Type: Article

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