Abstract: Mixing ratios of stratospheric constituents can be inferred from satellite- or balloon-based infrared solar occultation measurements. The nonlinear system of equations that relates the measurements to the mixing ratios is ...

Abstract: A priori estimates of the vertical distribution of tropospheric water vapor are needed to solve the radiative transfer equation in the 15 ?m CO2 band to derive tropospheric temperatures from radiances measured at orbiting ...

Abstract: An accurate approximation to calculate atmospheric profiles of transmittance in instrumental spectral intervals is presented. The approximation assumes a known transmittance model; i.e., that the transmittance in the ...

Abstract: In interpreting radiation data from the Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometers aboard the NOAA satellites, the following problem arose: given a satellite retrieval of the atmospheric temperature profile and a measurement ...