New model-based Bayesian inversion algorithm for the retrieval of wet troposphere path delay from radiometric measurements

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 411-419

  Keihm, S J ^a   Marsh, K A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VECTORS;

BAYESIAN INVERSION ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; WET TROPOSPHERE PATH DELAY;

TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0032025619     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS02748     Document Type: Article

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