Technical Note: Variance-covariance matrix and averaging kernels for the Levenberg-Marquardt solution of the retrieval of atmospheric vertical profiles

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3131-3139

  Ceccherini, S ^a   Ridolfi, M ^b  

^a IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EMISSION INVENTORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 77950353025     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-3131-2010     Document Type: Article

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