Inversion of Multi-Angle Radiation Measurement
Our need to reconcile models and measurements in an efficient manner that allows for the operational retrieval of particle sizes for a two layer cloud led us to develop a new method for calculating the Green's functions for radiative transfer. The method uses the fact that doubling/adding codes can be easily used to calculate internal radiation fields at arbitrarily high resolution. We have also determined that the adjoint downwelling and upwelling vector radiation fields are simply related to the usual downwelling and upwelling vector radiation fields so that the entire Green's function can be determined from a single calculation. The Green's functions have then been used to calculate the particle sizes in a two layer cloud that are consistent with both the reflectance and polarization measurements. This approach may be of use in other applications where adjoint calculations are used, particularly if multiangle measurements are being analyzed.
- Research Organization:
- Columbia University, New York, New York; NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Sponsor not identified (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 841660
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Fifteenth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting, Daytona Beach, FL (US), 03/14/2005--03/18/2005; Other Information: PBD: 18 Mar 2005
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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