A study on comparison of atmospheric temperature profiles

Author

Zhang, Wanchun ; Yin, Qiu

Author_Institution

Inst. of Remote Sensing Applic., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 July 2011

Firstpage

1907

Lastpage

1910

Abstract

Remote sensed images provide useful information of the atmosphere. The aim of this study is to introduce the temperature profile of the atmosphere from Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), and compare it with the Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval (TIGR) data set, the atmospheric temperature profile from Second Simulation of the Satellite Signal in the Solar Spectrum (6S), and the U.S. standard atmosphere in 1962 (US62). The result illustrates the capability of remote sensed images in atmospheric temperature profile retrieval, which is important when there is no previous information or sample data set of atmospheric temperature available. However, the comparison also indicates that the validity of atmospheric temperature profile needs to be improved much more.

Keywords

atmospheric temperature; remote sensing; AD 1962; MODIS instrument; Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; TIGR data set; Thermodynamic Initial Guess Retrieval data set; atmospheric temperature profiles; remote sensed images; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; MODIS; Ocean temperature; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; 6S; MODIS; TIGR; US62; atmospheric temperature profiles; validation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE), 2011 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hohhot

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9436-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MACE.2011.5987338

Filename

5987338