On instrumental errors and related correction strategies of ozonesondes: Possible effect on calculated ozone trends for the nearby sites Uccle and De Bilt

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 3793-3816

  Van Malderen, Roeland ^a   Allaart, Marc A F ^b   De Backer, Hugo ^a   Smit, Herman G J ^c   De Muer, Dirk ^a  

^a ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OZONE; OZONESONDE; PARTIAL PRESSURE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

BELGIUM; BRUSSELS [BELGIUM]; DE BILT; NETHERLANDS; UCCLE; UTRECHT [NETHERLANDS];

EID: 84983452705     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-3793-2016     Document Type: Article

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