Articles | Volume 14, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3991-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-3991-2014
Research article
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22 Apr 2014
Research article |  | 22 Apr 2014

A multi-year methane inversion using SCIAMACHY, accounting for systematic errors using TCCON measurements

S. Houweling, M. Krol, P. Bergamaschi, C. Frankenberg, E. J. Dlugokencky, I. Morino, J. Notholt, V. Sherlock, D. Wunch, V. Beck, C. Gerbig, H. Chen, E. A. Kort, T. Röckmann, and I. Aben

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