Improving retrieval quality for airborne limb sounders by horizontal regularisation

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-32

  Ungermann, J ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; REGULATORY APPROACH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 84872155900     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-15-2013     Document Type: Article

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