MIPAS-Envisat formaldehyde retrieval
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Retrieval of global upper tropospheric and stratospheric formaldehyde (H2CO) distributions from high-resolution MIPAS-Envisat spectra T. Steck, N. Glatthor, T. von Clarmann, H. Fischer, J. M. Flaud, B. Funke, U. Grabowski, M. Höpfner, S. Kellmann, A. Linden, A. Perrin, and G. P. Stiller Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systemes Atmospheriques (LISA), Paris, France Instituto de Astrof́ısica de Andalucı́a, Granada, Spain Received: 2 August 2007 – Accepted: 10 September 2007 – Published: 18 September 2007 Correspondence to: T. Steck ([email protected])
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