Precision improvements in the geo-fit retrieval of pressure and temperature from MIPAS limb observations by modeling CO2 line-mixing

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 14-26

  Niro, F ^a   Brizzi, G ^a   Carlotti, M ^a   Papandrea, E ^a   Ridolfi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

CO2; Line mixing; MIPAS; p T retrieval

Indexed keywords

GEO-FIT RETRIEVAL; INVERSION SYSTEM; LINE-MIXING; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER FOR PASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING (MIPAS);

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIXING; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENVISAT-1; INTERFEROMETER; MIXING; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

EID: 33749516993     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2006.07.012     Document Type: Article

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