Smooth inversion for ground surface temperature histories: Estimating the optimum regularization parameter by generalized cross-validation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1440-1448

  Rath, V ^a   Mottaghy, D ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

GCV; Geothermics; Inverse problem; Palaeoclimate; Regularization

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; MODEL VALIDATION; PALEOCLIMATE; TEMPERATURE INVERSION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 36348993046     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03587.x     Document Type: Article

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