The meteorological satellite sounding data has been used in numerical forecast in many countries. This paper introduces the methods for retrieving atmospheric temperature profiles from meteorological satellite vertical sounding data and the calculations of regression retrieval coefficients used in the statistical method. The preliminary results retrieved from NOAA-7 TOVS data using the statistical method are shown in the end of paper. Comparisons between retrieval results and radiosounde data indicate: absolute mean bias and root mean square (RMS) errors about 2-3℃ at each pressure levels.