Surface UV radiation monitoring based on GOME and SCIAMACHY

Jos van Geffen, Ronald van der A, Michiel van Weele, Marc Allaart and Henk Eskes
in: Proceedings of the ENVISAT & ERS Symposium, 6-10 September 2004,
Salzburg, Austria, ESA publication SP-572, 2005 (CD-ROM).

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Alkis Bais and Alcide Di Sarra for permission to use the groundbased measurements of Thessaloniki and Lampedusa.

The research described in this paper was performed within the framework of the Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service (TEMIS) project, part of the Data User Programme (DUP) of the European Space Agency (ESA).

 

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