Trends of tropical tropospheric ozone from 20 years of European satellite measurements and perspectives for the Sentinel-5 Precursor

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 5037-5051

  Heue, Klaus Peter ^a   Coldewey Egbers, Melanie ^a   Delcloo, Andy ^b   Lerot, Christophe ^c   Loyola, Diego ^a   Valks, Pieter ^a   Van Roozendael, Michel ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^c BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONVECTIVE CLOUD; GOME; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SCIAMACHY; SENTINEL; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATLANTIC COAST [AFRICA]; EUROPE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 84991619946     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-5037-2016     Document Type: Review

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