Abstract

The University of Wisconsin's Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer or AERI (Smith et al., 1994a; Revercomb et al., 1993) operates over a wavelength interval from around 500cm^-1 (20µm) up to about 3000cm^-1 (3µm) at an unapodised resolution of 0.5cm^-1. It has previously been shown (Smith et al., 1993; Collard et al., 1994) that this instrument can be used to measure the effective radius of cirrus cloud particles using the spectral variation of the emitted cloud radiance in one or both of the window regions observed by the AERI.

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