Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Discussions www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net 1867-8610 1 1 2008 10.5194/amtd-1-249-2008 http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/1/249/2008/ http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/1/249/2008/amtd-1-249-2008.html http://www.atmos-meas-tech-discuss.net/1/249/2008/amtd-1-249-2008.pdf 249 279 2008-11-27 Six years of total ozone column measurements from SCIAMACHY nadir observations C. Lerot christophe.lerot@aeronomie.be M. Van Roozendael J. van Geffen J. van Gent C. Fayt R. Spurr G. Lichtenberg A. von Bargen Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB), Brussels, Belgium RT Solutions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA German Aerospace Center (DLR), P.O. Box 1116, 82234 Wessling, Germany Total O₃ columns have been retrieved from six years of SCIAMACHY nadir UV radiance measurements using SDOAS, an adaptation of the GDOAS algorithm previously developed at BIRA-IASB for the GOME instrument. 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