Retrieving atmospheric temperature profiles from AMSU-A data with neural networks

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 606-616

  Yao, Zhigang ^a,c   Chen, Hongbin ^b   Lin, Longfu ^c  

^a PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING INSTITUTE OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

AMSU A; Neural network; Retrieval; Temperature profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944479275     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918492     Document Type: Article

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