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Incorporation of climatology into a Backus‐Gilbert variational scheme for atmospheric temperature retrieval
Author(s) -
Palmer T. N.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49710544605
Subject(s) - depth sounding , radiometer , scheme (mathematics) , microwave radiometer , remote sensing , meteorology , atmospheric sounding , environmental science , atmospheric temperature , variational analysis , physics , geology , mathematics , mathematical analysis , oceanography
A method is proposed for explicitly incorporating climatological information into a Backus‐Gilbert variational scheme for atmospheric temperature retrieval by a remote sounding radiometer. The method is applied to a study of the retrieval ability of a ground‐based microwave radiometer.