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Cloudy sounding and cloud-top height retrieval from airs alone single field-of-view radiance measurements
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Li, Jun Yang, Ping Li, Jinlong Zhou, Daniel K. Huang, Hung-Lung Weisz, Elisabeth Goldberg, Mitchell D. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Description | High-spectral resolution measurements from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) onboard the EOS (Earth Observing System) Aqua satellite provide unique information about atmospheric state, surface and cloud properties. This paper presents an AIRS alone single field-of-view (SFOV) retrieval algorithm to simultaneously retrieve temperature, humidity and ozone profiles under all weather conditions, as well as cloud top pressure (CTP) and cloud optical thickness (COT) under cloudy skies. For optically thick cloud conditions the above-cloud soundings are derived, whereas for clear skies and optically thin cloud conditions the profiles are retrieved from 0.005 hPa down to the earth's surface. Initial validation has been conducted by using the operational MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) product, ECMWF (European Center of Medium range Weather Forecasts) analysis fields and radiosonde observations (RAOBs). These inter-comparisons clearly demonstrate the potential of this algorithm to process data from 38 high-spectral infrared (IR) sounder instruments. |
| File Size | 932606 |
| Page Count | 19 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20080007166 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t4tj3gp8m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2007-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Imaging Spectrometers High Resolution Infrared Instruments Atmospheric Composition Cloud Physics Meteorological Parameters Spectral Resolution Weather Forecasting Data Processing Cloud Height Indicators Field of View Optical Thickness Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |