Critical parameters for the retrieval of mesospheric water vapour and temperature from Odin/SMR limb measurements at 557 GHz

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 835-845

  Lossow, Stefan ^a   Urban, Joachim ^b   Eriksson, Patrick ^b   Murtagh, Donal ^b   Gumbel, Jörg ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Limb sounding; Non linear retrieval; Polar summer mesosphere; Temperature; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

LIMB MEASUREMENTS; LIMB SOUNDING; POLAR SUMMER MESOSPHERE;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34548254044     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.05.026     Document Type: Article

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