Atmospheric Spectroscopy Lab UMBC

AIRS Single Footprint Retrievals

Mon, Feb 15, 2016 Sergio Machado

Location

/home/sergio/MATLABCODE/CRODGERS_FAST_CLOUD

Overview

Working on OEM Single Footprint Retrievals using AIRS L1B data.

  • Currently using L2(T)L2 regularization

  • Also added in cost function penalty for supersaturation

  • Tested in AIRS g039 for 2011/03/11 (DCC over the TWP)

  • Currently working on Feb 08, 2014 Atmospheric River off CA/OR/WA

  • See Chris Barnet presentation

  • have downloaded AIRS granules 220,221,222

  • Tweaking retrieval params

Plot from Chris (pg 9 of his slides)

Figure 1: Cut and paste from Chris presentation.

Plots from Sergio

same as above, but for UMBC

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biases

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T and WV at 800 mb

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