Sensitivity of trace gas abundances retrievals from infrared limb emission spectra to simplifying approximations in radiative transfer modelling

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 249-280

  Stiller, Gabriele P ^a   Von Clarmann, Thomas ^a   Funke, Bernd ^a   Glatthor, Norbert ^a   Hase, Frank ^a   Höpfner, Michael ^a   Linden, Andrea ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radiative transfer modelling; Remote sensing; Retrieval of geophysical parameters

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETERS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; OPTIMIZATION; TRACE ANALYSIS;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

INFRARED RADIATION;

ABUNDANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRACE GAS;

EID: 0035980710     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(01)00123-6     Document Type: Article

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