Abstract: Artificial earth satellites offer a unique opportunity to exploit the possibility of deducing temperature profiles on a global scale from measurements of radiance in several narrow spectral intervals in a strongly absorbing ...

Abstract: The method of real-time retrieval of atmospheric temperature profiles from Nimbus IV Satellite Infrared Spectrometer observations currently used in dynamical weather analysis-forecast operation is described. Each vertical ...

Abstract: The statistical minimum-rms inversion method used to obtain temperature profiles, requires estimates of covariance matrices and means for Planck function profiles of the atmosphere. In order to obtain these estimates over ...