Effects of vertical grid discretization in infrared transmission modeling

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2463-2490

  Wiacek, Aldona ^a   Strong, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric trace gases; Infrared spectroscopy; Infrared transmission modeling; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Vertical retrieval grid spacing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERICS; DEPOSITS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GAS ABSORPTION; GAS FUEL PURIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

DISCRETIZATION; FORWARD MODELLING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED (FT-IR); GENERAL (CO); GROUND-BASED SOLAR ABSORPTION; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INFRARED (IR); MIDINFRARED (MIR) SPECTRAL RANGE; MODEL TRANSMISSION; RETRIEVAL (MIR); SPECTRA (CO); TRACE GASES; VERTICAL GRID DISCRETIZATION; VERTICAL SPACING;

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERPOLATION; MIXING RATIO; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE; TRACE GAS; TROPOSPHERE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 47249117906     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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