The present investigation is concerned with a versatile inversion code which is capable of retrieving profiles of aerosol size distributions and concentrations from multiwavelength satellite measurements of either the scattered radiance from the earth's sunlit atmosphere in both the limb-viewing mode and downward-viewing mode, or the extinction of direct solor radiation by the earth's atmosphere. The inversion code in its present form is a composite of three subcodes. The inversion code is composed of several module algorithms for treating the inverse problem in radiative transfer through a scattering and absorbing aerosol atmosphere, which is vertically inhomogeneous, spherical, and which takes into account multiple scattering and surface albedo effects. The inversion code has been applied and tested for a number of remote sensing techniques. Examples are given concerning the retrieval results for the vertical profiles of aerosol size distribution and concentation.


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    Title :

    Retrieval of aerosol characteristics from scattering and extinction measurements


    Contributors:
    Deepak, A. (author) / Wang, P.-H. (author)

    Publication date :

    1982-01-01



    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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