Inversion of moisture profiles by a nonlinear iterative physical retrieval

Acta Meteorologica Sinica

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-140

  Wu, Xuebao ^a,b   Li, Jun ^c   Zhang, Fengying ^b   Zhang, Wenjian ^b   Zhu, Yuanjing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NSMC   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

ATOVS measurements; Nonlinear iterative physical retrieval method; Regression retrieval method; Root mean square error

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE; SATELLITE DATA; TOVS;

EID: 2342453402     PISSN: 08940525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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