Technical Note: Feasibility of CO<sub>2</sub> profile retrieval from limb viewing solar occultation made by the ACE-FTS instrument

Major limitations of our present knowledge of the global distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere are the uncertainty in atmospheric transport mixing and the sparseness of in situ concentration measurements. Limb viewing space-borne sounders, observing the atmosphere along tangen...

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Main Authors: C. D. Boone, P. Bernath, V. Capelle, G. Dufour, A. Chédin, P. Y. Foucher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-04-01
Series:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Online Access:http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/2873/2009/acp-9-2873-2009.pdf