Retrieval of temperature and tangent altitude pointing from limb emission spectra recorded from space by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)
By Thomas von Clarmann, N. Glatthor, U. Grabowski, Michael Höpfner, S. Kellmann, M. Kiefer, A. Linden, G. Tsidu, M. Milz, T. Steck and 6 more. 2003
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[1] Retrieval of abundances of atmospheric species from limb infrared emission spectra requires accurate knowledge of the pointing of the instrument in terms of elevation, as well as temperature and pressure profiles. An optimal estimation-based method is presented to infer these quantities from measured spectra. The successful and efficient joint retrieval of these largely correlated quantities depends strongly on the proper selection of the retrieval space, the selection of spectral microwindows, and the choice of reasonable constraints which force the solution to be stable. The proposed strategy was applied to limb emission spectra recorded with the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) on board the Envisat research satellite in order to validate the instrument pointing information based on the satellite's orbit and attitude control system which uses star tracker information as a reference. Both systematic and periodic pointing calibration errors were detected, which meanwhile have been corrected to a major part. Furthermore, occasional pitch jumps were detected, which could be assigned to parameter uploads to the satellite's orbit and attitude control system. It has been shown that in general, it is justified to assume local thermodynamic equilibrium below 60 km for these purposes. The retrieval method presented has been proven to be suitable for independent monitoring of MIPAS line-of-sight pointing.
Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science
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- A. Linden
- S. Chauhan
- U. Grabowski
- M. Kiefer
- N. Glatthor
- T. Schieferdecker
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- Retrieval of temperature, H 2 O, O 3 , HNO 3 , CH 4 , N 2 O, ClONO 2 and ClO from MIPAS reduced resolution nominal mode limb emission measurements (2009, result): “Compared to the original temperature retrievals published by von Clarmann et al.(2003), microwindows in the 15μm band system below 700 cm −1, where the spectrum is fairly saturated, and the microwindow in the CO2 laser band, where non-LTE is a particular issue, have been discarded in favour of furth”