Predicted dynamic electrothermal performance of thermistor bolometer radiometers for Earth radiation budget applications

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 28, 1997, Pages 7129-7142

  Haeffelin, Martial P A ^a,b   Mahan, J Robert ^a   Priestley, Kory J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001106197     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007129     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Inadvertent Climate Modification, Final Report of the Study of Man’s Impact(MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1971).
2. B. R. Barkstrom and G. L. Smith, “The Earth radiation budget experiment: science and implementation,” Rev. Geophys.24, 379-390 (1986).
3. V. Ramanathan, R. D. Cess, E. F. Harrison, P. Minnis, B. R. Barkstrom, E. Ahmad, and D. Hartmann, “Cloud radiative forcing and climate: results from the Earth radiation budgetexperiment,” Science243,57-63 (1989).
4. B. R. Barkstrom and J. B. Hall Jr., “The Earth radiation budget experiment (ERBE): an overview,” J. Energy6,141-146 (1982).
5. B. R. Barkstrom, “The Earth radiation budget experiment (ERBE),” Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc.65,1170-1185 (1984).
6. B. A. Wielicki and B. R. Barkstrom, “Clouds and the Earth’s radiant energy system (CERES): an Earth observing systemexperiment,” inProceedings of the Second Symposium on Global Change Studies, E. J. Barron, J. R. Mahoney, C. B. Baker, R. J. Gurney, and J. T. Merrill, eds. (American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass., 1991), pp. 11-16.
7. S. L. Carman, J. E. Cooper, J. Miller, E. F. Harrison, and B. R. Barkstrom, “Clouds and the Earth’s radiant energy system (CERES),” Adv. Astrophys. Sci.76,693-706 (1992).
8. N. E. Tira, “Dynamic simulation of solar calibration of the total Earth-viewing channel of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE),” Master’s thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1987).
9. N. E. Tira, “A study of the thermal and optical characteristics of radiometric channels for Earth radiation budget applications,” Ph.D. dissertation (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1991).
10. R. P. Bongiovi, “A parametric study of the radiative and optical characteristics of a scanning radiometer for Earth radiation budget applications using the Monte-Carlo method,” Master’s thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1993).
11. M. Walkup, “Creation of a Monte-Carlo optical work bench for radiometric imaging,” Master’s thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1996).
12. J. L. Meekins, “Optical analysis of the ERBE scanning thermistor bolometer using the Monte-Carlo method,” Master’s thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1990).
13. M. P. A. Haeffelin, “A numerical study of equivalence in scanning thermistor bolometer radiometers for Earth radiation budget applications,” Master’s thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1993).
14. K. J. Priestley, J. R. Mahan, and R. B. Lee III, “Use of high-level numerical radiometric channel models for Earth radiation budget signal processing,” presented at the Sixth Annual Inverse Problems in Engineering Seminar, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994.
15. J. R. Howell, “Application of Monte Carlo to heat transfer problems,” inAdvances in Heat Transfer(Academic, New York, 1968), Vol. 5, pp. 1-54.
16. T. S. Chou, “A Monte Carlo approach to optical analysis,” Opt. Eng.13,299-302 (1974).
17. J. R. Mahan and L. D. Eskin, “Application of the Monte Carlo technique to transient thermal modeling of cavity radiometers having diffuse-specular surfaces,” inProceedings of the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, C. L. Mater, ed. (American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass., 1981), pp. 181-186.
18. J. R. Mahan and L. D. Eskin, “The radiation distribution factor its calculation using Monte Carlo and an example of its application,” inProceedings of the First UK National Heat Transfer Conference, H. C. Simpson, ed., Report No. 19 (European Federation of Chemical Engineering Publication Series, Leeds, England, 1984), pp. 1001-1012.
19. J. R. Mahan, F. Kowsary, and L. D. Eskin, “Apparent emis-sivities of conical and cylindrical cavities: comparison ofMonte Carlo and exact analytical results,” inRadiation, Phase Change Heat Transfer, and Thermal Systems, Y. Jaluria, V. P. Carey, W. A. Fiveland, and W. Yuen, eds. (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), New York, 1987), pp. 1-8.
20. N. E. Tira, J. R. Mahan, and R. B. Lee III, “Dynamic electrothermal model for the ERBE nonscanning radiometer with application to solar observation and thermal noise,” Opt. Eng.29,351-358 (1990).
21. N. E. Tira, J. R. Mahan, R. B. Lee III, and R. J. Keynton, “Linear-array apertures for in-flight dynamic solar calibration of radiometric channels for Earth radiation-budget applications,” Appl. Opt.33,5617-5627 (1994).
22. S. V. Patankar, Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow(Hemisphere, New York, 1980).
23. M. P. A. Haeffelin, “A study of Earth radiation budget radiometric channel performance and data interpretation protocols,” Ph.D. thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1996).
24. R. Siegel and J. R. Howell, Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer(Hemisphere, Washington, D.C., 1992).
25. S. J. Katzberg, F. O. Huck, and S. D. Wall, “Photosensor aperture shaping to reduce aliasing in optical-mechanical line-scan imaging systems,” Appl. Opt.12,1054-1060 (1973).
26. P. V. Villeneuve, “A numerical study of the sensitivity of cloudy-scene bidirectional reflectivity distribution functions to variations in cloud parameters,” Ph.D. thesis (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va., 1996).
27. CERES Drawing Package: Encoder and Sensor Drawings(BEI, Servo, Adcole), TRW Applied Technology Division, Space and Electronics Group, One Space Park, Redondo Beach, Calif. 902-78, 1993.
28. N. Manalo, G. L. Smith, and B. R. Barkstrom, “Transfer function considerations for the CERES scanning radiometer,” inProceedings of the Tenth Conference on Optoelectronics and Microwave, H. N. Nasr, ed. (International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Wash., 1991), pp. 106-116.
29. G. L. Smith, “Effects of time response on the point-spread function of a scanning radiometer,” Appl. Opt.33,7031-7037 (1994).