Microwave-Infrared Retrievals.

Abstract

A fast efficient solution to the plane-parallel scattering atmosphere radiative transfer problem was developed for use in simulating the effects of clouds and rain on infrared and microwave passive remote sensing systems. The solution was based upon the use of a variational-iterative procedure. Application of the variational-iterative procedure to simulating the effects of low stratus and thin cirrus clouds revealed that for the window channel (channel 7) of the DMSP infrared sensor system, mutliple scattering computations are required to adequately estimate the radiance for both types of clouds. In addition, multiple scattering calculations are required to properly estimate the radiance values for channels 5 and 6 for thin cirrus clouds. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA065155

Entities

People

  • H. K. Burke
  • M. G. Fowler
  • R. D. Rosen
  • R. K. Crane

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Cirrus Clouds
  • Cloud Cover
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Sets
  • Digital Data
  • Equations
  • Integral Equations
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Optical Properties
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Scattering
  • Surface Temperature
  • Weather Forecasting

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Spectroscopy.