Adjoint sensitivity analysis of radiative transfer equation: Temperature and gas mixing ratio weighting functions for remote sensing of scattering atmospheres in thermal IR

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 195-211

  Ustinov, Eugene A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjoint sensitivity analysis; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

HEAT RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERING;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

MIXING RATIO; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033744121     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(00)00022-4     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. A variational approach for computing of weighting functions for remote sensing of the atmosphere in thermal spectral region
2. Exploration of the solar system by infrared remote sensing
3. Inverse problem of thermal sounding: Retrieval of vertical profile of the coefficient of absorption of an optically active constituent of the planetary atmosphere
4. Equation for the value of information from weather satellites and formulation of inverse problems
5. Application of the adjoint formulation to the calculations of atmospheric radiative effects
6. Application of the perturbation theory for atmospheric radiative effects: Aerosol scattering atmospheres
7. Shortwave radiative effects of standard aerosol models: A perturbation approach
8. Inverse problem of thermal sounding: 3. Retrieval of the vertical profile of the mixing ratio of a minor gaseous constituent
9. Inverse problem of the photometry of the solar radiation reflected by an optically thick planetary atmosphere: Mathematical framework and weighting functions of the linearised inverse problem
10. Inverse problem of the photometry of the solar radiation reflected by an optically thick planetary atmosphere: 2. Numerical aspects and requirements upon the geometry of observations
11. Inverse problem of the photometry of solar radiation reflected by an optically thick planetary atmosphere. 3. Remote sounding of minor gaseous constituents and atmospheric aerosol
12. Sensitivity of exiting radiances to details of the scattering phase function
13. Retrieval of the albedo and phase function from exiting radiances with radiative perturbation theory
14. Information content of the kernel matrix for the phase function retrieval problem