Tropical tropospheric ozone columns from nadir retrievals of GOME-1/ERS-2, SCIAMACHY/Envisat, and GOME-2/MetOp-A (1996-2012)

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 3407-3427

  Leventidou, Elpida ^a   Eichmann, Kai Uwe ^a   Weber, Mark ^a   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; ENVISAT; GOME; METOP; NADIR; OZONE; SCIAMACHY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL REGION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84979966593     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-3407-2016     Document Type: Article

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