Elimination of hidden a priori information from remotely sensed profile data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 397-408

  Von Clarmann, T ^a   Grabowski, U ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33846573686     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-7-397-2007     Document Type: Article

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