Calibration of infrared instruments for the remote sounding of atmospheric temperature
Abstract
For IR radiometers making remote observations of atmospheric temperature structure, an absolute accuracy of about 1/2% in radiance measurement is required and a relative accuracy between measurements of about 0.1%. Such accuracies can be achieved. The present theoretical models of the 15-micron carbon-dioxide band are inadequate for interpretation of remote sounding observations and careful measurements of atmospheric transmission in this region are required.
- Publication:
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Applied Optics
- Pub Date:
- February 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1364/AO.16.000319
- Bibcode:
- 1977ApOpt..16..319H
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Temperature;
- Calibrating;
- Infrared Radiometers;
- Remote Sensors;
- Temperature Measurement;
- Black Body Radiation;
- Nimbus 5 Satellite;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Instrumentation and Photography;
- REMOTE SENSING;
- INFRARED;
- TEMPERATURE;
- RADIOMETRY;
- SPACE OPTICS;
- ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS