Retrieval of atmospheric optical depth profiles from downward-looking high-resolution O2 A-band measurements: Optically thin conditions

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 2469-2477

  Min, Qilong ^a   Harrison, Lee C ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; ERROR DETECTION; FUNCTIONS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SCATTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETERS;

LINEAR INVERSION; OPTICAL DEPTHS; QAUSI-LINEAR RETRIEVAL;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AEROSOL; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 8744295666     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<2469:ROAODP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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