Articles | Volume 6, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1413-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-1413-2013
Research article
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24 May 2013
Research article |  | 24 May 2013

Validation of six years of TES tropospheric ozone retrievals with ozonesonde measurements: implications for spatial patterns and temporal stability in the bias

W. W. Verstraeten, K. F. Boersma, J. Zörner, M. A. F. Allaart, K. W. Bowman, and J. R. Worden

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