Statistical assessment of champ data and models using the energy balance approach

Earth Observation with CHAMP: Results from Three Years in Orbit

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 133-138

  Kusche, Jürgen ^a   Van Loon, Jasper ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CHAMP; energy balance approach; statistical assessment; variance components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895251388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26800-6_21     Document Type: Chapter

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