Two-dimensional radiative transfer for the retrieval of limb emission measurements in the martian atmosphere

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• 作者：Armin Kleinbö ; hl ; A. James Friedson ; John T. Schofield
• 关键词：2D ; Radiative transfer ; Limb geometry ; Mars ; MCS
• 刊名：Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：187
• 期：Complete
• 页码：511-522
• 全文大小：5468 K
• 卷排序：187

文摘

The remote sounding of infrared emission from planetary atmospheres using limb-viewing geometry is a powerful technique for deriving vertical profiles of structure and composition on a global scale. Compared with nadir viewing, limb geometry provides enhanced vertical resolution and greater sensitivity to atmospheric constituents. However, standard limb profile retrieval techniques assume spherical symmetry and are vulnerable to biases produced by horizontal gradients in atmospheric parameters. We present a scheme for the correction of horizontal gradients in profile retrievals from limb observations of the martian atmosphere. It characterizes horizontal gradients in temperature, pressure, and aerosol extinction along the line-of-sight of a limb view through neighboring measurements, and represents these gradients by means of two-dimensional radiative transfer in the forward model of the retrieval. The scheme is applied to limb emission measurements from the Mars Climate Sounder instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Retrieval simulations using data from numerical models indicate that biases of up to 10 K in the winter polar region, obtained with standard retrievals using spherical symmetry, are reduced to about 2 K in most locations by the retrieval with two-dimensional radiative transfer. Retrievals from Mars atmospheric measurements suggest that the two-dimensional radiative transfer greatly reduces biases in temperature and aerosol opacity caused by observational geometry, predominantly in the polar winter regions.