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Remote sounding of the atmospheric temperature profile in the presence of cloud
Author(s) -
Rodgers C. D.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49709641008
Subject(s) - depth sounding , cloud computing , atmosphere (unit) , variance (accounting) , meteorology , environmental science , atmospheric temperature , remote sensing , computer science , geology , geography , oceanography , operating system , accounting , business
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.