All weather IASI single field-of-view retrievals: Case study - Validation with JAIVEx data

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2241-2255

  Zhou, D K ^a   Smith, W L ^b,c   Larar, A M ^a   Liu, X ^a   Taylor, J P ^d   Schlussel P ^e   Strow, L L ^f   Mango, S A ^g  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g NPOESS Integrated Program Office   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; EIGENVALUE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 71149120017     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-2241-2009     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Aires, F., Chedin, A., Scott, N. A., and Rossow, W. B.: A regression neural net approach for retrieval of atmospheric and surface temperatures with the IASI instrument, J. Appl. Meteorol., 41, 144-159, 2002. (Pubitemid 34853838)
2. Aumann, H. H., Chahine, M. T. Gautier, C., Goldberg, M. D., Kalnay, E., McMillin, L. M., Revercomb, H., Rosenkranz, P. W., Smith, W. L., Staelin, D. H., Strow, L., and Susskind, J.: AIRS/AMSU/HSB on the Aqua mission: design, science objective, data products, and processing systems, IEEE T. Geosci. Remote, 41, 253-264, 2003.
3. Blumstein, D., Chalon, G., Carlier, T., Buil, C., Hebert, P., Maciaszek, T., Ponce, G., and Phulpin, T.: IASI instrument: technicaloverview and measured performances, SPIE Proc. 5543, 196-207, 2004. (Pubitemid 40422288)
4. Borbas, E., Seemann, S. W., Huang, H.-L., Li, J., and Menzel, W. P.: Global profile training database for satellite regression retrievals with estimates of skin temperature and emissivity, Proc. Int. ATOVS Study Conf. XIV, Beijing, China, CIMSS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 763-770, 2005.
5. Chahine, M. T., Pagano, T. S., Aumann, H. H., Atlas, R., Barnet, C., Blaisdell, J., Chen, L., Divakarla, M., Fetzer, E. J., Goldberg, M., Gautier, C., Granger, S., Hannon, S., Irion, F. W., Kakar, R., Kalnay, E., Lambrigtsen, B. H., Lee, S.-Y., Le Marshall, J., McMillan, W. W., McMillin, L., Olsen, E. T., Revercomb, H., Rosenkranz, P., Smith,W. L., Staelin, D., Strow, L. L., Susskind, J., Tobin, D., Wolf, W., and Zhou, L.: AIRS: improving weather forecasting and providing new insights into climate, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 87, 911-926, 2006. (Pubitemid 44209643)
6. Cousins, D. and Smith, W. L.: National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Airborne Sounder Testbed-Interferometer (NAST-I), SPIE Proc., 3127, 323-331, 1997.
7. Eldering, A., Kahn, B. H., Mills, F. P., Irion, F. W., Steele, H. M., Gunson, M. R.: Vertical profiles of aerosol volume from high spectral resolution infrared transmission measurements: Results, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D20201, doi:10.1029/2004JD004623, 2004. (Pubitemid 40098460)
8. Hansen, P. C.: Rank-Deficient and Discrete Ill-Posed Problems: Numerical Aspects of Linear Inversion. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics [SIAM] Monographs on Mathematical Modeling and Computation #4, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 247 pp., 1998.
9. Heymsfield, A. J., Matrosov, S., and Baum, B.: Ice water path- optical depth relationships for cirrus and deep stratiform ice cloud layers, J. Appl. Meteorol., 42, 1369-1390, 2003. (Pubitemid 37470772)
10. Klaes, K. D., Cohen, M. Buhler, Y., Schlüssel, P., Munro, R., Luntama, J.-P., Von Engeln, A., Clerigh, E. O., Bonekamp, H., Ackermann, J., Schmetz, J.: An introduction to the EUMETSAT Polar System, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc, 88, 1085-1096, 2007. (Pubitemid 47278304)
11. Li, J.: Temperature and water vapor weighting functions from radiative transfer equation with surface emissivity and solar reflectivity, Adv. Atmos. Sci., 11, 421-426, 1994.
12. Larar, A. M, Smith, W. L., Zhou, D. K., Liu, X., Revercomb, H., Taylor, J. P., Newman, S. M., and Schlüssel, P.: IASI spectral radiance performance validation: case study assessment from the JAIVEx field campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., submitted, 2009.
13. Liu, X., Moncet, J.-L., Zhou, D. K., and Smith, W. L.: A Fast and Accurate Forward Model for NAST-I Instrument, in: Fourier Transform Spectroscopy and Optical Remote Sensing of Atmosphere, 2003 Technical Digest Series OSA, Opt. Soc. Am., Washington, DC, USA, p. 16., 2003.
14. Ma, X. L., Schmit, T. J., and Smith, W. L.: A nonlinear physical retrieval algorithm - its application to the GOES-8/9 sounder, J. Appl. Meteorol., 38, 501-513, 1999.
15. Moncet, J. L., Liu, X., Rieu-Isaacs, H., Snell, H., Zaccheo, S., Lynch, R., Eluszkiewicz, J., He, Y., Uymin, G., Lietzke, C., Hegarty, J., Boukabara, S., Lipton, A., and Pickle, J.: Algorithm theoretical basis document (ATBD) for the Cross Track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) environmental data records (EDR), V1.2.3, AER document P882-TR-E-1.2.3-ATBD-03-01, Atmos. Environ. Res., Boston, Mass., USA, 2003.
16. Newman, S. M., Smith, J. A., Glew, M. D., Rogers, S. M., and Taylor, J. P.: Temperature and salinity dependence of sea surface emissivity in the thermal infrared, Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 131, 2539-2557, 2005. (Pubitemid 41489756)
17. Pagano, T. S., Aumann, H. H., Hagan, D. E., and Overoye, K.: Prelaunch and in-flight radiometric calibration of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), IEEE T. Geosci. Remote, 41,265-273, 2003. (Pubitemid 350178129)
18. Pougatchev, N.: Validation of Atmospheric Sounders by Correlative Measurements, Appl. Optics, 47, 4739-4748, 2008.
19. Rodgers, C. D.: Retrieval of atmospheric temperature and composition from remote measurements of thermal radiation, Rev. Geophys. Space G., 14, 609-624, 1976.
20. Salisbury, J. W., and D'Aria, D. M.: Emissivity of terrestrial material in the 8-14μm atmospheric window, Remote Sens. Environ., 42, 83-106, 1992. (Pubitemid 23375728)
21. Seemann, S. W., Borbas, E. E., Knuteson, R. O., Stephenson, G. R., and Huang, H.-L.: Development of a global infrared land surface emissivity database for application to clear-sky sounding retrievals from multi-spectral satellite radiance measurements, J. Appl. Meteorol. Clim., 47, 108-123, 2008. (Pubitemid 351351469)
22. Smith, W. L., Zhou, D. K., Huang, H.-L., Li, J., Liu, X., and Larar, A. M.: Extraction of profile information from cloud contaminated radiances, paper presented at the ECMWF Workshop on the Assimilation of High Spectral Resolution Sounders in NWP, June 28-July 1, 2004.
23. Stamnes, K., Tsay, S.-C., Wiscombe, W., and Jayaweera, K.: Numerically stable algorithm for discrete-ordinate-method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting media, Appl. Optics, 27, 2502-2509, 1988.
24. Strow, L. L., Hannon, S. E., De Souza-Machado, S., Motteler, H. E., and Tobin, D.: An overview of the AIRS radiative transfer model, IEEE T. Geosci. Remote, 41, 303-313, 2003. (Pubitemid 350178133)
25. Taylor, J. P., Smith, W. L., Cuomo, V., Larar, A. M., Zhou, D. K., Serio, C., Maestri, T., Rizzi, R., Newman, S., Antonelli, P., Mango, S., Di Girolamo, P., Esposito, F., Grieco, G., Summa, D., Restieri, R., Masiello, G., Romano, F., Pappalardo, G., Pavese, G., Mona, L., Amodeo, A., and Pisani, G.: EAQUATE - An international experiment for hyper-spectral atmospheric sounding validation, B. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 89, 203-218, 2008. (Pubitemid 351472379)
26. Tikhonov, A. N.: On the solution of incorrectly stated problems and a method of regularization, Dokl. Acad. Nauk. SSSR, 151, 501-504, 1963.
27. Tobin, D. C., Revercomb, H. E., Knuteson, R. O., Lesht, B. M., Strow, L. L., Hannon, S. E., Feltz, W. F., Moy, L. A., Fetzer, E. J., and Cress, T. S.: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site atmospheric state best estimates for Atmospheric Infrared Sounder temperature and water retrieval validation, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D09S14 doi:10.1029/2005JD006103, 2006. (Pubitemid 43950193)
28. Twomey, S.: On the numerical solution of Fredholm integral equations of the first kind by inversion of the linear system produced by quadrature, J. Assoc. Comput. Mach., 10, 97-101, 1963.
29. Weisz, E., Li, J., Li, J., Zhou, D. K., Huang, H., Goldberg, M. D., and Yang, P.: Cloudy sounding and cloud-top height retrieval from AIRS alone single field-of-view radiance measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L12802, doi:10.1029/2007GL030219, 2007. (Pubitemid 351193220)
30. Yang, P., Gao, B. C., Baum, B. A., Hu, Y., Wiscombe, W. J., Tsay, S.-C., Winker, D. M., and Nasiri, S. L.: Radiative Properties of cirrus clouds in the infrared (8-13μm) spectral region, J. Quant. Spectros. Rad., 70, 473-504, 2001. (Pubitemid 32668022)
31. Zhou, D. K., Smith, W. L., Li, J., Howell, H. B., Cantwell, G. W., Larar, A. M., Knuteson, R. O., Tobin, D. C., Revercomb, H. E., and Mango, S. A.: Thermodynamic product retrieval methodology for NAST-I and validation, Appl. Opt., 41, 6957-6967, 2002. (Pubitemid 35421888)
32. Zhou, D. K., Smith, W. L., Liu, X., Larar, A. M., Huang, H.-L. A., Li, J., McGill, M. J., and Mango, S. A.: Thermodynamic and cloud parameters retrieval using infrared spectral data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L15805, doi:10.1029/2005GL023211, 2005. (Pubitemid 41398759)
33. Zhou, D. K., Larar, A. L., Smith, W. L., and Liu, X.: Surface emissivity effects on thermodynamic retrieval of IR spectral radiance, Proc. SPIE 6405, 64051H, 2006.
34. Zhou, D. K., Smith, Sr., W. L., Liu, X., Larar, A. M., Mango, S. A., and Huang, H.-L.: Physically retrieving cloud and thermodynamic parameters from ultraspectral IR measurements, J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 969-982, 2007a. (Pubitemid 46554488)
35. Zhou, D. K., Smith, W. L., Cuomo, V., Taylor, J. P., Barnet, C. D., Di Girolamo, P., Pappalardo, G., Larar, A. M., Liu, X., Newman, S. M., Lee, C., and Mango, S. A.: Retrieval validation during the European Aqua Thermodynamic Experiment, Q. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 133, 203-215, 2007b.