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Meteorological Dependence on Ground - Based Interferometer Temperature and Water Vapor Retrieval Accuracy

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Abstract

The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) is used to produce temperature and water vapor profiles every ten minutes in the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL), the lowest 3 km of the earth's atmosphere. AERI measures infrared (IR) radiation (3 to 18 um) passively, yielding high resolution radiance spectra (Figure 1). The spectra contains valuable meteorological information. These radiance spectra are transformed to vertical temperature and water vapor profiles by inverting the IR Radiative Transfer (RTE). Good temperature and water vapor retrieval skill for the PBL have been shown in several field experiments using AERI.

© 1997 Optical Society of America

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