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HIRS-AMTS Satellite Sounding System Test—Theoretical and Empirical Vertical Resolving Power
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Theoretical and empirical analyses of the vertical resolving power of the High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) and the Advanced Moisture and Temperature Sounder (AMTS) is carried out. First, the infrared ...
Regularizing the Satellite Temperature-Retrieval Problem through Singular-Value Decomposition of the Radiative Transfer Physics
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A new method is derived for retrieving atmospheric temperature profiles from satellite-measured spectral radiance that appears, in first tests, to effectively circumvent certain difficulties of other well-known and implemented ...
Coupling of Horizontal, Vertical, and Temporal Resolving Power of a Satellite Temperature Sounder
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite sensor optical systems now provide scan spots that are reasonably small and closely spaced compared with the horizontal scales of atmospheric variability that meteorologists might like to infer. Furthermore, ...
Diurnal Oscillations of the Tropospheric Wind Field above a Low-Level Jet
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An hypothesis is given for the cause of the observed diurnal oscillations in the mid- and upper-tropospheric wind field that occur in association with oscillations of the boundary layer wind field and low-level, nocturnal ...
NWP-Initialized Satellite Temperature Retrievals Using Statistical Regularization and Singular Value Decomposition Methods
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Several research groups have announced plans to merge satellite profile retrieval methods and numerical weather prediction methods into ?interactive? satellite retrieval approaches for both weather and climate-scale ...
A Low Cost, Portable Milli-Voltage Integrator
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: An integrating device for totalizing the output of various transducers with respect to time is described. The device is battery operated and costs less than $150. The input span is adjustable from 6 to 100 millivolts and ...
The Ill-posed Nature of the Satellite Temperature Retrieval Problem and the Limits of Retrievability
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The inverse problem of satellite temperature profile retrieval is well known to be ill-posed. Ibis means that not only is a vertical temperature profile solution not unique, but that two solutions can be very different ...
On the Resolution of Temperature Profile Finestructure by the NOAA Satellite Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Preliminary results of a study to assess the vertical resolving power of NOAA satellite VTPR radiation measurements used to estimate temperature profiles are presented. A brief analysis of the trade-off between vertical ...