Application of Optical Measure Theory to Atmospheric Temperature Sounding from TOVS (TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder) Radiances

摘要

We have demonstrated robust algorithms for generating fits in Optical Measure Theory (OMT) to radiance data from the TIROS Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS). These algorithms generated physically meaningful fits on 100% of a test set of 45 TOVS radiance scans, and were successful both on short wavelength (667/cm) and on long wavelength (2250/cm) TOVS data. The resulting OMT temperature profiles exhibit meteorological characteristics and appear to be suitable for determination of atmospheric structure parameters characterizing the large-scale vertical temperature of the atmosphere, and also suitable for generation of input data for numerical weather prediction codes. Keywords: Optical data, Atmospheric sounding, Meteorological satellites, Remote sensing, Atmospheric temperature profiles. (EDC)