Estimating uncertainties in the SBUV version 8.6 merged profile ozone data set

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 14695-14707

  Frith, Stacey M ^a   Stolarski, Richard S ^b   Kramarova, Natalya A ^a   McPeters, Richard D ^c  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 85029293349     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-14695-2017     Document Type: Article

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