Modeling the impact of the Earth's oblateness on the retrieval of temperature and pressure profiles from limb sounding

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 171-180

  Syndergaard, S ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

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EID: 0001657141     PISSN: 13646826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6826(97)00056-4     Document Type: Article

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