Single-footprint retrievals of temperature, water vapor and cloud properties from AIRS

Irion, Fredrick W.; Kahn, Brian H.; Schreier, Mathias M.; Fetzer, Eric J.; Fishbein, Evan; Fu, Dejian; Kalmus, Peter; Wilson, R. Chris; Wong, Sun; Yue, Qing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-971-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-971-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-971-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

Research article

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19 Feb 2018

Research article |

| 19 Feb 2018

Single-footprint retrievals of temperature, water vapor and cloud properties from AIRS

Fredrick W. Irion, Brian H. Kahn, Mathias M. Schreier, Eric J. Fetzer, Evan Fishbein, Dejian Fu, Peter Kalmus, R. Chris Wilson, Sun Wong, and Qing Yue

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review 1: Single-footprint retrievals of temperature, water vapor and cloud properties from AIRS', Anonymous Referee #1, 22 Aug 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Referee #1', Fredrick Irion, 30 Nov 2017
RC2: 'Single Field of view hyperspectral retrievals from cloudy radiance observations', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Sep 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Referee #2', Fredrick Irion, 30 Nov 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Fredrick Irion on behalf of the Authors (30 Nov 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Dec 2017) by Lars Hoffmann

Short summary

We describe a new algorithm for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) that uses its thermal infrared spectra directly rather than using “cloud-clearing.” By additionally modelling clouds within an AIRS field-of-view, we retrieve temperature and water vapor profiles on the AIRS ~13.5 km horizontal footprint (at nadir) rather than the ~45 km footprint of cloud-cleared spectra. Initial validation is presented, and avenues for future development are discussed.