Assessment of the horizontal resolution of retrieval products derived from MIPAS observations

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 10458-10472

  Carlotti, M ^a   Dinelli, B M ^b   Papandrea, E ^a   Ridolfi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

SAMPLING GRIDS; SIMULATED OBSERVATIONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34547809417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010458     Document Type: Article

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