Call number:
MOP 43600 / Mitte
In:
Environmental remote sensing: applications and achievements
Description / Table of Contents:
Abstract
The principles of spectroscopic sounding of planetary atmospheres are reviewed, showing how the vertical temperature structure may be derived from measurements of thermal emission by carbon dioxide. The Selective Chopper Radiometer, designed jointly by Oxford and Heriot-Watt Universities is then described in detail and results obtained from this instruments on the NIMBUS IV satellite are presented. Future developments of this kind of observation are briefly discussed.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
Seiten 187-213
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graphische Darstellungen
Series Statement:
Environmental remote sensing: applications and achievements Part 3, Water, weather and climate
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Abstract ... 187
I Introduction ... 187
II Principles of spectroscopic sounding ... 188
1 Theoretical considerations ... 188
2 Temperature sounding by radiometric methods ... 191
3 The Selective Chopper Radiometer ... 196
III Data handling ... 200
IV Interpretation of results ... 200
1 Retrieval of temperature profiles ignoring clouds ... 200
2 Retrieval of temperature profiles involving clouds ... 202
V Results from the Selective Chopper Radiometer ... 206
VI Future developments ... 209
1 Selective Chopper Radiometer ... 209
2 Pressure Modulator Radiometer ... 210
3 Limb Scanning Radiometer ... 211
References ... 212
Location:
MOP - must be ordered
Branch Library:
GFZ Library
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