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Remote sounding of the atmospheric temperature profile in the presence of cloud

✍ Scribed by C. D. Rodgers

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1970
Tongue
English
Weight
634 KB
Volume
96
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The present state of the art of retrieving the atmospheric temperature profile from remote measurements is briefly described, and methods based on maximum probability and minimum variance criteria are discussed. A maximum probability method is derived for the case of a cloudy atmosphere and synthetic examples of its use are given. The method is numerically fast and is capable of being generalized to incorporate other kinds of information. Such extra information might be for example surface temperature, cloud estimates from television pictures or forecast profiles.

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