SCIAMACHY tropospheric NO2 over the Alpine region and importance of pixel surface pressure for the column retrieval
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1 Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland 2 Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 3 Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland 4 German National Meteorological Service, DWD/MOHp, 82383 Hohenpeissenberg, Germany 5 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Universitätstrasse 16, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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