A note on systematic errors in Bayesian retrieval algorithms

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-74

  Seo, Eun Kyoung ^a   Liu, Guosheng ^a   Kim, Kwang Yul ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLOUD; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 34248644292     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85.69     Document Type: Article

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