ARIES: an airborne infrared interferometer to prepare for future satellite instruments

Jonathan A. Smith; Steven H. S. Wilson; Peter Joseph Rayer; Nigel C. Atkinson

doi:10.1117/12.301138

1 January 1997 ARIES: an airborne infrared interferometer to prepare for future satellite instruments

Jonathan A. Smith, Steven H. S. Wilson, Peter Joseph Rayer, Nigel C. Atkinson

Proceedings Volume 3220, Satellite Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.301138
Event: Aerospace Remote Sensing '97, 1997, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

In preparation for new meteorological infrared satellite sounders (such as the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer, IASI) an interferometer has been mounted on the Meteorological Office's research aircraft. Early development of assimilation software will allow the new satellite data to be used at numerical weather prediction centers soon after launch. ARIES, the Airborne Research Interferometer Evaluation System, with a 1 cm^-1 wavenumber resolution over 600 to 3000 cm^-1 wavenumbers (wavelength 16(DOT)7 to 3(DOT)3 micrometer) is described. Preliminary data are compared with results from a line by line radiative transfer model using the atmospheric profile measured by the aircraft, (which can also measure cloud in-situ).

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Jonathan A. Smith, Steven H. S. Wilson, Peter Joseph Rayer, and Nigel C. Atkinson "ARIES: an airborne infrared interferometer to prepare for future satellite instruments", Proc. SPIE 3220, Satellite Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere II, (1 January 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.301138

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