Retrieval of the aerosol particle size distribution function by incorporating a priori information

Journal of Aerosol Science

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 885-901

  Wang, Yanfei ^a,b   Fan, Shufang ^c   Feng, Xue ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^c LIAOCHENG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A priori; Aerosol particle size distribution; Damped Gauss Newton iteration; Inversion; l1 and l2 norm; Regularization

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOMETERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REMOTE SENSING;

PARTICLE SPECTRUM; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUES; SOLVABILITY; TIKHONOV'S SMOOTH REGULARIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOMETER; REMOTE SENSING;

AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34547956088     PISSN: 00218502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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