| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Series on atmospheric, oceanic and planetary physics ; v.2
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Series on atmospheric, oceanic and planetary physics ; v.2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Atmospheric Remote Sounding Methods -- Thermal emission nadir and limb sounders -- Scattered solar radiation -- Absorption of solar radiation -- Active techniques -- Simple Solutions to the Inverse Problem -- Information Aspects -- Formal Statement of the Problem -- State and measurement vectors -- Forward model -- Weighting function matrix -- Vector spaces -- Linear Problems without Measurement Error -- Subspaces of state space -- Identifying the null space and the row space -- Linear Problems with Measurement Error -- Describing experimental error -- Bayesian approach to inverse problems -- Bayes' theorem -- Example: The Linear problem with Gaussian statistics -- Degrees of Freedom -- How many independent quantities can be measured? -- Degrees of freedom for signal -- Information Content of a Measurement -- Fisher information matrix -- Shannon information content -- Entropy of a probability density function -- Entropy of a Gaussian distribution -- Information content in the linear Gaussian case -- Standard Example: Information Content and Degrees of Freedom -- Probability Density Functions and the Maximum Entropy Principle -- Error Analysis and Characterisation -- Characterisation -- Forward model -- Retrieval method -- Transfer function -- Linearisation of the transfer function -- Interpretation -- Retrieval method parameters -- Error Analysis -- Smoothing error -- Forward model parameter error -- Forward model error -- Retrieval noise -- Random and systematic error -- Representing covariances. |
| Summary |
Remote sounding of the atmosphere has proved to be a fruitful method of obtaining global information about the atmospheres of the earth and other planets. This book treats comprehensively the inverse problem of remote sounding, and discusses a wide range of retrieval methods for extracting atmospheric parameters of interest from the quantities (thermal emission, for example) that can be measured remotely. Inverse theory is treated in depth from an estimation-theory point of view, but practical questions are also emphasized, such as designing observing systems to obtain the maximum quantity of information, efficient numerical implementation of algorithms for processing large quantities of data, error analysis and approaches to the validation of the resulting retrievals. The book is targeted at graduate students as well as scientists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sounding and soundings.
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Sounding and soundings. |
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Atmosphere -- Measurement.
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Atmosphere -- Measurement. |
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Atmosphere. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rodgers, C.D. (Clive D.). Inverse methods for atmospheric sounding. Singapore ; [River Edge, N.J.] : World Scientific, [©2000] 981022740X (OCoLC)45098450 |
| ISBN |
9789812813718 (electronic book) |
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9812813713 (electronic book) |
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981022740X |
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9789810227401 |
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