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Airborne and ground-based Fourier transform spectrometers for meteorology: HIS, AERI, and the new AERI-UAV
Henry E. Revercomb,William L. Smith,Fred A. Best,Jean Giroux,Daniel D. LaPorte,Robert O. Knuteson,Mark W. Werner,Jim R. Anderson,Nick N. Ciganovich,Richard W. Cline,Scott D. Ellington,R. G. Dedecker,T. P. Dirkx,Raymond K. Garcia,H. Benjamin Howell +14 more
- Vol. 2832, pp 106-117
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The AERI-UAV as discussed by the authors is a UAV equipped with a high-resolution interferometer sounder for high altitude ER2, which is used in the DOE atmospheric radiation measurement program.Abstract:
Broadband IR high spectral resolution observations of atmospheric emission provide key meteorological information related to atmospheric state parameters, cloud and surface spectral properties, and processes influencing radiative budgets and regional climate. Fourier transform spectroscopy (FTS), or Michelson interferometry, has proven to be an exceptionally effective approach for making these IR spectral observations with the high radiometric accuracy necessary for weather and climate applications, and are currently developing a new airborne instrument for use on an unmanned aerospace vehicle (UAV). These include the high- resolution interferometer sounder aircraft instrument developed for the NASA high altitude ER2, the atmospheric emitted radiance interferometer (AERI) and the new AERI-UAV for application in the DOE atmospheric radiation measurement program. This paper focuses on the design of the AERI-UAV which is novel in many respects. The efforts will help speed the day when this valuable instrumentation is used to improve remote sensing and radiative budget observations from space.read more
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Radiometric and spectral validation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder observations with the aircraft-based Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder
David C. Tobin,Henry E. Revercomb,Robert O. Knuteson,Fred A. Best,William L. Smith,William L. Smith,Nick N. Ciganovich,R. G. Dedecker,Steven Dutcher,Scott D. Ellington,Raymond K. Garcia,H. Benjamin Howell,Daniel D. LaPorte,Stephen A. Mango,Thomas S. Pagano,Joe K. Taylor,Paul van Delst,Kenneth H. Vinson,Mark W. Werner +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison between a high-altitude aircraft spectrometer and an AIRS was performed on the NASA Aqua spacecraft by the Scanning-HIS on a NASA ER-2 high altitude aircraft, and the difference in brightness temperature was found to be 0.2 K or less for most channels.
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Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer nadir spectral radiance comparisons
Mark W. Shephard,Helen M. Worden,Karen Cady-Pereira,M. Lampel,M. Luo,Kevin W. Bowman,E. Sarkissian,Reinhard Beer,David M. Rider,David C. Tobin,Henry E. Revercomb,Brendan Fisher,Denis Tremblay,Shepard A. Clough,G. B. Osterman,Michael R. Gunson +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on board the Aura spacecraft is upwelling infrared spectral radiances, and the comparison of TES with SHIS (adjusted for geometric differences) show mean and standard deviation differences of less than 0.3 K at warmer brightness temperatures of 290-295 K.
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Minimum Local Emissivity Variance Retrieval of Cloud Altitude and Effective Spectral Emissivity—Simulation and Initial Verification
Hung-Lung Huang,William L. Smith,Jun Li,Paolo Antonelli,Xiangqian Wu,Robert O. Knuteson,Bormin Huang,Brian Osborne +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the minimum local emissivity variance (MLEV) technique was used for simultaneous retrieval of cloud pressure level and effective spectral emissivities from high-spectral-resolution radiances, for the case of single-layer clouds.
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Highly accurate FTIR observations from the Scanning HIS aircraft instrument
Henry E. Revercomb,David C. Tobin,Robert O. Knuteson,Fred A. Best,William L. Smith,Paul van Delst,Daniel D. LaPorte,Scott D. Ellington,Mark W. Werner,R. G. Dedecker,Raymond K. Garcia,Nick N. Ciganovich,H. B. Howell,Erik R. Olson,Steven Dutcher,Joe K. Taylor +15 more
TL;DR: The Scanning HIS instrument as discussed by the authors is a smaller version of the original High-resolution Interferometer Sounder (HIS) that uses cross-track scanning to enhance spatial coverage.
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Remote spectral imaging using a low cost uav system
TL;DR: In this article, a field campaign is used to obtain data to assess geolocation accuracy using coastline crossing detection and to obtain airborne bare soil spectra in ground truth form using an Argus 1000 micro-spectrometer and low-cost UAV system.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an aircraft version of the high-resolution interferometer sounder (HIS), a Fourier transform spectrometer designed for meteorological applications, has been used to measure the upwelling infrared emission of the earth with a resolving power on the order of 1000.
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