AIRS channel selection for CO2 and other trace‐gas retrievals

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society - Tập 129 Số 593 - Trang 2719-2740 - 2003
Cyril Crévoisier1, A. Chédin1, N. A. Scott1
1IPSL, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, France

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AbstractNew high‐resolution infrared sounders, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Aqua satellite Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) or the European Meteorological Satellite systems, MetOp Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Instrument (IASI), are expected to improve our capability to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and other trace‐gas concentrations from space. As they present thousands of channels, the first problem arising is the selection of a set of channels presenting the best properties to retrieve these concentrations. A new method, the Optimal Sensitivity Profile (OSP) method, based on the study of the sensitivities of AIRS channels to variations in the vertical of the different atmospheric components, is proposed. It is then compared with two ‘classical’ methods based on the information content and the degrees of freedom for signal of the AIRS channels regarding CO2. Applying the OSP method to a set of 82 representative atmospheric situations obtained from the 2311 situations of the Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval (TIGR) dataset, divided into three air masses (tropical, temperate and polar), and using simulated AIRS observations, a global set of 43 channels, well covering the whole atmospheric column, is selected for CO2 retrieval. The OSP method is finally used to select channels for retrieval of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4) concentrations. Copyright © 2003 Royal Meteorological Society

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Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Tập 129 Số 593

2719-2740

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