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
The vehicles that fly the satellite into a model of the Earth system are <i>observation operators</i>. They provide the link between the quantities simulated by the model and the quantities observed from space, either directly (spectral radiance) or indirectly estimated through a retriev...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Biogeosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/14/2343/2017/bg-14-2343-2017.pdf |