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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...