A self-adapting and altitude-dependent regularization method for atmospheric profile retrievals

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1883-1897

  Ridolfi, M ^a   Sgheri, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ENVISAT-1; FOURIER TRANSFORM; INVERSE PROBLEM; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; NITROGEN OXIDES; OZONE;

EID: 63049114476     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-1883-2009     Document Type: Article

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