An optimization approach for aerosol retrievals using simulated MISR radiances

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Diner, David J ^a   Hodos, Rachel A ^a   Davis, Anthony B ^a   Garay, Michael J ^b   Martonchik, John V ^a   Sanghavi, Suniti V ^a   von Allmen, Paul ^a   Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^c   Zhai, Pengwang ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosols; MISR; Optimization

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL MODELS; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AEROSOL PROPERTIES; AEROSOL RETRIEVAL; COMPUTER SPEED; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; LEVENBERG-MARQUARDT OPTIMIZATION; MISR; MULTIANGLE IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PARTICLE MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RUNTIMES; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED DATA; SOLUTION SPACE; VARIABLE PARAMETERS;

AEROSOLS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INNOVATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; ALGORITHM; MISR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OPTIMIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84865126188     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2011.05.020     Document Type: Article

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