Detecting physically unrealistic outliers in ACE-FTS atmospheric measurements

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 741-750

  Sheese, P E ^a   Boone, C D ^b   Walker, K A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACE 1; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM; MIXING RATIO; OUTLIER;

EID: 84922791619     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-8-741-2015     Document Type: Article

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