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Author: Hervé Herbin, Philippe Dubuisson

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Basic Physics of the Atmosphere and Radiation
1.1. Structure and composition of Earth’s atmosphere

• Vertical structure of the atmosphere
• Atmospheric gases
• Aerosols and hydrometeors

1.2. Atmospheric aerosols

• Overview
• Microphysical properties of aerosols

1.3. Clouds

• Definitions and classification
• Formation
• Microphysical properties

1.4. Radiation in Earth’s atmosphere

• Electromagnetic radiation
• The foundations of radiometry
• Solar and terrestrial radiation
• Reflection and emission of radiation by a surface

1.5. Radiation budget of the climate system

• Radiative balance of the atmosphere
• The greenhouse effect and parasol effect
• Radiative forcing of atmospheric components
• Impact of aerosols on climate
• Impact of clouds on climate
• Climate sensitivity
• Observation of radiative budget

1.6. For further information

Chapter 2. Instrumentation and Sensors
2.1. Platforms, satellites and sensors

• Types of orbits
• Characteristic parameters of satellites
• Geometry of lines of sight

2.2. Infrared detection techniques

• Radiometers
• High spectral resolution instruments

2.3. For further information

Chapter 3. Forward Radiative Transfer in Absorbing Atmosphere
3.1. Gaseous absorption and emission

• Overview
• Rovibrational spectroscopy
• Line shapes
• Line intensity and absorption coefficient

3.2. Radiative transfer equation in an absorbing medium

3.3. Solving the RTE

• Models at high spectral resolution: line-by-line codes
• Approximate modeling of gas absorption
• Boundary conditions and atmospheric parameters

3.4. For further information

Chapter 4. Forward Radiative Transfer in Scattering Atmosphere
4.1. Atmospheric scattering

• Main properties of scattering
• Rayleigh scattering
• Mie scattering
• Non-spherical particles
• Extinction coefficient and optical thickness

4.2. Polarization

4.3. Radiative transfer equation (RTE) in a scattering medium

• General expression of the RTE
• Solving of the RTE
• Azimuthal dependence of the radiation field
• Simplification of the phase function

4.4. Numerical methods to solve the RTE in a scattering plane–parallel medium

• Approximate analytical expressions
• Discrete ordinate method
• Adding-doubling method
• Successive orders of scattering method

4.5. List of radiative transfer codes

4.6. For further information

Chapter 5. Methods of Geophysical Parameter Retrieval
5.1. Inversion process

• Principle of the inversion process
• The measurement vector and state vector
• The forward model

5.2. Linear models

• Linear least squares (LLS) method
• Regularized linear model

5.3. Nonlinear inversion

5.4. Optimal estimation method (OEM)

• Inversion method
• Sensitivity of the measurement and informational content analysis
• Error analysis for the retrieved profile
• Example of water vapor profile retrieval from IASI

5.5. Lookup tables

5.6. For further information

Chapter 6. Space Infrared Remote Sensing: Some Applications
6.1. Water vapor isotopologues

6.2. Biomass fires and trace gases

6.3. Volcanic eruptions

• Sulphur dioxide
• Volcanic aerosols

6.4. Physical properties of clouds

• Classification and physical properties of ice clouds
• Thermodynamic phase and altitude of clouds

6.5. For further information

Appendix

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