Study of Background Radiance in Upper Atmosphere.

Abstract

The work of this contract was intended to develop the atmospheric model which integrates the emission and the scattering term in a combined form and to provide analysis of the earth atmospheric emission data gathered by the SPIRE payload in these two terms. Our work performed throughout the entire period can be divided into five areas: (1) incorporation of various computer programs designed to calculate the atmospheric infrared emission level under a specific condition; (2) improvement of the algorithm employed in these programs; (3) development of an atmospheric infrared radiance model which unifies the emission and scattering term; (4) application and evaluation of the developed model to analysis of the SPIRE data; and (5) evaluation of some preliminary test data for the coming AFGL balloon-borne atmospheric emission measurement experiment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA092927

Entities

People

  • Hajime Sakai

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Atmospheric Physics
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Blackbody Radiation
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Analysis
  • Frequency
  • Line Of Sight
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Personality
  • Precision
  • Radiative Transfer
  • Research Facilities
  • Scattering
  • Space Sciences

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Theoretical Analysis.