Impact of nonlinearity on changing the a priori of trace gas profile estimates from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES)

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3081-3092

  Kulawik, S S ^a   Bowman, K W ^a   Luo, M ^a   Rodgers, C D ^b   Jourdain, L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; EMISSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; NONLINEARITY; SPECTROMETER; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 45849148874     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-8-3081-2008     Document Type: Article

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