Abstract

Rodgers¹ presents a general approach for error analysis of retrievals based on a linearization of the retrieval problem. This approach allows calculation of retrieval error from uncertainties in the input radiances and in each of the forward radiance model parameters. These terms are weighted according to the sensitivity of the retrieval to each of them. We use this framework to describe the results of an error analysis performed on HALOE² data. This paper will show the effect of using oversampled profile data and an interleave retrieval technique by application of formal error analysis.

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