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AIRS: Improving Weather Forecasting and Providing New Data on Greenhouse GasesThis paper discusses the performance of AIRS and examines how it is meeting its operational and research objectives based on the experience of more than 2 yr with AIRS data. We describe the science background and the performance of AIRS in terms of the accuracy and stability of its observed spectral radiances. We examine the validation of the retrieved temperature and water vapor profiles against collocated operational radiosondes, and then we assess the impact thereof on numerical weather forecasting of the assimilation of the AIRS spectra and the retrieved temperature. We close the paper with a discussion on the retrieval of several minor tropospheric constituents from AIRS spectra.
Document ID
20070034778
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Chahine, Moustafa T.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Pagano, Thomas S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Aumann, Hartmut H.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Atlas, Robert
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Barnet, Christopher
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Blaisdell, John
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Chen, Luke
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Divakarla, Murty
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Fetzer, Eric J.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Goldberg, Mitch
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Gautier, Catherine
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Granger, Stephanie
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Hannon, Scott
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Irion, Fredrick W
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Kakar, Ramesh
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Kalnay, Eugenia
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lee, Sung-Yung
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Marshall, John Le
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
McMillan, W. Wallace
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
McMillin, Larry
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Olsen, Edward T.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Revercomb, Henry
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Rosenkranz, Philip
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Smith, William L.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 2006
Publication Information
Publication: Bulletin of the American Meterological Society
Volume: 87
Issue: 7
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
remote sensing
infrared spectrometers
microwave measurement
atmospheric temperature
radiometers
atmospheric humidity
atmospheric measuring apparatus

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