Stratospheric temperature profile from balloon-borne measurements of the 10.4-μm band of CO2.
Abstract
The technique of nonlinear least squares spectral curve fitting has been used to derive the stratospheric vertical temperature profile from balloon-borne measurements of the 10.4-μm band of CO2. The spectral data were obtained at sunset with the ≅ 0.02 cm-1 resolution University of Denver interferometer system from a float altitude of 33.5 km near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 23 March 1981. The r.m.s. deviation between the retrieved temperature profile and correlative radiosonde measurements is 2.2K.
- Publication:
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Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
- Pub Date:
- October 1983
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0022-4073(83)90030-4
- Bibcode:
- 1983JQSRT..30..327R
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Temperature;
- Balloon Sounding;
- Infrared Spectra;
- Stratosphere;
- Temperature Profiles;
- Atmospheric Sounding;
- Carbon Dioxide;
- Error Analysis;
- Least Squares Method;
- Vertical Distribution;
- Geophysics;
- Earth Stratosphere:Temperatures;
- Temperatures:Earth Stratosphere