This paper presents the method of retrieving shelter (or surface) temperature from TOVS sounding data by using the multiplelinear regression technique and shows the results obtained from NOAA-9 TOVS data for three days from Aug. 22 to 24, 1986. Comparisons are made of the retrieved results with the conventional observed shelter temperatures, and shows that the absolute mean bias is about 2.8℃ for the entire region (60-20°N, 75-150°E>.