Reviews and syntheses: Flying the satellite into your model: On the role of observation operators in constraining models of the Earth system and the carbon cycle

Biogeosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 2343-2357

  Kaminski, Thomas ^a   Mathieu, Pierre Philippe ^b  

^a Inversion Lab   (Germany)

^b ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CARBON CYCLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE;

EID: 85018913676     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-2343-2017     Document Type: Review

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