The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: instrument design,  calibration, and level 1 data processing  – an overview

Munro, Rosemary; Lang, Rüdiger; Klaes, Dieter; Poli, Gabriele; Retscher, Christian; Lindstrot, Rasmus; Huckle, Roger; Lacan, Antoine; Grzegorski, Michael; Holdak, Andriy; Kokhanovsky, Alexander; Livschitz, Jakob; Eisinger, Michael

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The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: instrument design, calibration, and level 1 data processing – an overview

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