Efficient nonlinear inversion for atmospheric sounding and other applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1790-1796

  Lynch, Richard ^a   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a   Xu, Liu ^b  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; DEGREE OF NON-LINEARITY; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT METHOD; MINIMIZATION METHODS; NON LINEAR INVERSION; NONLINEAR COST FUNCTIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES;

COST FUNCTIONS;

EID: 65249158520     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.001790     Document Type: Article

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