Efficient radiative transfer simulations for a broadband infrared radiometer - Combining a weighted mean of representative frequencies approach with frequency selection by simulated annealing
Journal article, 2010
We present a method to efficiently simulate the measurements of a broadband infrared instrument. The High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) instrument is used as example to illustrate the method. The method uses two basic ideas. Firstly, the channel radiance can be approximated by a weighted mean of the radiance at some representative frequencies, where the weights can be determined by linear regression. Secondly, a near-optimal set of representative frequencies can be found by simulated annealing.
The paper does not only describe and analyze the method, it also describes how the method was used to derive optimized frequency grids for the HIRS instruments on the satellites TIROS N, NOAA 6-19, and Metop A. The grids and weights as well as the optimization algorithm itself are openly available under a GNU public license.
Radiative transfer
Correlated k
HIRS
Thermal infrared
Weighted mean of representative frequencies
ARTS
Simulated annealing
Frequency selection
Atmospheric radiative transfer simulator
High resolution infrared radiation sounder
WMRF
Author
S.A. Buehler
Luleå University of Technology
V.O. John
Met Office
A Kottayil
Luleå University of Technology
M. Milz
Luleå University of Technology
Patrick Eriksson
Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Global Environmental Measurements and Modelling
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
0022-4073 (ISSN)
Vol. 111 4 602-615Subject Categories
Other Environmental Engineering
DOI
10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.10.018