High spectral resolution infrared remote sensing for earth's weather and climate studies /
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| Imprint: | Berlin ; New York : Springer, c1993. |
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| Description: | p. cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NATO ASI series. Series I, Global environmental change vol. 9 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1631610 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Review of future programs from 1994 ATOVS) to the EOS era. Historical background for IASI / B. Bizzari. IASI, infrared interferometer for operations and research / F. Cayla. Requirements for an Operational Interferometer Thermal Sounder / M. Perrone. Development of a Fourier Transform Infrared sounder. IMG / H. Shimoda and T. Ogawa
- Ch. 2. Next generation IR sounders : temperature and moisture analysis. The "Advanced-3I (Improved Initialization Inversion)" method for the processing of next generation sounder observations / A. Chedin, N. A. Scott, F. Cheruy and B. Tournier. Extraction of atmospheric signals from radiance measurements : some limitations / M. J. Uddstrom and L. M. McMillin. GLA and LMD approaches to the processing of AIRS and IASI observations / F. Cheruy, J. Susskind, N. A. Scott, A. Chedin and J. Joiner. The impact of the initial guess on the accuracy of satellite retrievals / L. M. McMillin and M. Uddstrom. Vertical sounding capabilities with high spectral resolution atmospheric radiation measurements. A demonstration with the High resolution Interferometer Sounder (HIS) / W. L. Smith, H. E. Revercomb, H. L. Huang and R. O. Knuteson
- Ch. 3. Next generation IR sounders and cloud field analysis. Determination of temperature and moisture profiles in a cloudy atmosphere using AIRS/AMSU / J. Susskind, M. T. Chahine and J. Joiner. Topics in optimal inversion schemes applied to atmospheric structure retrieval / V. Cuomo, U. Amato, R. Rizzi, C. Serio and U. Tramutoli. Retrieval of cloud parameters by multiple high spectral resolution observations in the near infrared under conditions of varying solar illumination / T. J. Kleespies. Spectral variability of light scattering by atmospheric ice crystals / A. Macke. Detection of Polar Stratospheric Clouds with next generation IR sounders / R. Meerkoetter. Problems in cloud identification and clearing / R. Rizzi, C. Serio and V. Cuomo. The potential of medium resolution spectral infrared measurements for high cloud studies / D. Spankuch. Modelling reflecting and semi-transparent cloud for infrared sounding / P. D. Watts and A. J. Baran
- Ch. 4. Next generation IR Sounder and surface characteristics analysis. Infrared remote sensing of surface temperature and surface spectral emissivities / F. Becker and Z. Li. Effects of spectral resolution on satellite surface temperature retrieval / A. E. Lipton. Investigation of infrared emissivities of Sahara dust powders and quartz from space / T. Takashima and K. Masuda
- Ch. 5. Next Generation IR sounders and trace gas analysis. Trace gas remote sounding from near IR sun glint observation with tunable etalons / Tad. Aoki, M. Fukabori and T. Aoki. "High resolution observation of the Earth's atmosphere in the far infrared" / B. Carli. Remote sensing of atmospheric trace constituents using MID-IR Fourier transform spectrometry / H. Fischer. The measurement of global carbon monoxide using the Atmospheric Infrared Radiation Sounder (AIRS) / L. Larrabee Strow
- Ch. 6. Next generation IR observations : impact on weather and climate analysis. Direct use of satellite sounding radiances in numerical weather prediction / J. Eyre, E. Andersson and A. P. McNally. Retrieval and assimilation: system considerations / A. C. Lorenc. On measuring the greenhouse effect of Earth / G. L. Stephens, A. Slingo and M. Well. Multi-year statistics of total cloud amounts from the Nimbus-7, ISCCP and coads data sets / B. C. Weare
- Ch. 7. Forward modelling. Transmittance coefficient generation for fast radiative transfer models. Application to new satellite sounding systems / P. Brunel, L. Lavanant and G. Rochard. Review of existing spectral line data catalogs / N. Husson, A. Chedin and B. Bonnet. CO[subscript 2] Q-branch spectral line shapes for atmospheric remote sensing / L. Larrabee Strow. Optimal spectral estimation algorithms for Michelson interferometer spectrometers / C. Serio, U. Amato, V. Tramutoli, R. Rizzi and V. Cuomo.
