A practical demonstration on AMSU retrieval precision for upper tropospheric humidity by a non-linear multi-channel regression method

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 451-459

  Jiménez, Carlos ^a   Eriksson, P ^b   John, V O ^c   Buehler, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 15544364234     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-5-451-2005     Document Type: Article

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