Satellite Temperature Sounding of the Atmosphere: Ground Truth Analysis.

Abstract

Defense Meteorological Satellite measurements of the upwelling radiation in the sounder channels of the 15 micrometer CO2 band have been compared with calculations for a number of clear atmosphere conditions. Great care was used to ensure that complete radiosonde and rocketsonde data coincident in space and time were available. The methods of transmittance and radiance calculations are described and the results compared directly with the satellite measurements. The results indicate a systematic discrepancy in all but one channel. Calculations in general exceeded the measured radiances. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 19, 1976
Accession Number
ADA038236

Entities

People

  • Robert A. Mcclatchey

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Air Force
  • Altitude
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Temperature
  • Data Analysis
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Radiance
  • Radiant Intensity
  • Radiation
  • Surface Temperature
  • Temperature Inversion
  • Water Vapor
  • Weighting Functions

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.

Technology Areas

  • Space