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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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