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The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space

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The study of the distributions and amounts of trace constituents in the troposphere, using satellite instruments orbiting some 800 km above in space, is a science that has developed within the past twenty or so years and which is having a large influence on both monitoring the global and regional atmospheric environment, and within the research field of atmospheric chemistry. The field is a relatively new scientific discipline within the field of Earth Observation.

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Burrows, J.P., Platt, U., Borrell, P. (2011). Tropospheric Remote Sensing from Space. In: Burrows, J., Borrell, P., Platt, U. (eds) The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14791-3_1

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