Simultaneous retrievals of temperature and volume mixing ratio constituents from nonoxygen Odin submillimeter radiometer bands

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 33, 2001, Pages 6102-6110

  Baron, Philippe ^a   Merino, Frank ^a   Murtagh, Donal ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; OXYGEN; PRESSURE EFFECTS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

SUBMILLIMETER RADIOMETERS (SMR);

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0038149482     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.006102     Document Type: Article

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