A non-linear inversion method for retrieval of water vapour from radio occultation measurements

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 32-38

  Wang, Xin ^a   Lu, Da Ren ^a   Xue, Zhen Gang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b Beijing Institute of the Applied Meteorology   (China)

Author keywords

Cost function; Radio occultation; Retrieval; Water vapor profiles

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 24044475285     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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