On the observability of chemical and physical aerosol properties by optical observations: Inverse modelling with variational data assimilation

Michael Kahnert

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00436.x

On the observability of chemical and physical aerosol properties by optical observations: Inverse modelling with variational data assimilation

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 61 (2009): Issue 5

By: Michael Kahnert

Open Access

|Jan 2009

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