A feasibility study to use machine learning as an inversion algorithm for aerosol profile and property retrieval from multi-axis differential absorption spectroscopy measurements

Dong, Yun; Spinei, Elena; Karpatne, Anuj

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-5537-2020

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A feasibility study to use machine learning as an inversion algorithm for aerosol profile and property retrieval from multi-axis differential absorption spectroscopy measurements

Yun Dong, Elena Spinei, and Anuj Karpatne

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