Variational data analysis of aerosol species in a regional CTM: background error covariance constraint and aerosol optical observation operators

Michael Kahnert

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00377.x

Variational data analysis of aerosol species in a regional CTM: background error covariance constraint and aerosol optical observation operators

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 60 (2008): Issue 5

By: Michael Kahnert

Open Access

|Jan 2008

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