Technical Note: Comparing the effectiveness of recent algorithms to fill and smooth incomplete and noisy time series

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 7905-7923

  Musial, J P ^a,b   Verstraete, M M ^a   Gobron, N ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOCORRELATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; INTERPOLATION; SMOOTHING; TIME SERIES;

EID: 80051630928     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-7905-2011     Document Type: Article

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