Articles | Volume 13, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4393-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4393-2020
Review article
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17 Aug 2020
Review article |  | 17 Aug 2020

Overview: Estimating and reporting uncertainties in remotely sensed atmospheric composition and temperature

Thomas von Clarmann, Douglas A. Degenstein, Nathaniel J. Livesey, Stefan Bender, Amy Braverman, André Butz, Steven Compernolle, Robert Damadeo, Seth Dueck, Patrick Eriksson, Bernd Funke, Margaret C. Johnson, Yasuko Kasai, Arno Keppens, Anne Kleinert, Natalya A. Kramarova, Alexandra Laeng, Bavo Langerock, Vivienne H. Payne, Alexei Rozanov, Tomohiro O. Sato, Matthias Schneider, Patrick Sheese, Viktoria Sofieva, Gabriele P. Stiller, Christian von Savigny, and Daniel Zawada

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