SCIAMACHY limb pointing
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Spatial and temporal characterization of SCIAMACHY limb pointing errors during the first three years of the mission C. von Savigny, J. W. Kaiser, H. Bovensmann, J. P. Burrows, I. S. McDermid, and T. Leblanc Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP/IFE), University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee 1, 28334 Bremen, Germany Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Table Mountain Facility, Wrightwood, CA 92397-0367, USA Received: 8 April 2005 – Accepted: 20 April 2005 – Published: 7 June 2005 Correspondence to: C. von Savigny ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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