Remote sensing of the Earth’s atmosphere by the spaceborne Occultation Radiometer, ORA: Final inversion algorithm

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 941-948

  Fussen, Didier ^a   Vanhellemont, Filip ^a   Bingen, Christine ^a  

^a BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; POLYNOMIALS; REMOTE SENSING;

OCCULTATION RADIOMETERS;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0003926150     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.000941     Document Type: Article

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