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Atmospheric Radiation – Lecture 8
PHY2505 - Lecture 8
Radiative Transfer
Band Models
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Atmospheric Radiation – Lecture 8
Outline
• Equivalent width• Weak line/strong line approximations• Band models• Curtis-Godson approximation• MODTRAN
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Equivalent width
Consider a homogenous atmospheric layer. Here the spectral absorption coefficient does not depend on path length.
The spectral transmittance T for a band of widthv is
And spectral absorptance, A
Equivalent width, W [cm-1]:a measure of absorptance, A, over the spectral interval v
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Equivalent width of a Lorentz line
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Equivalent width of a Lorentz line
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“Weak line” limit
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“Strong line” limit
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Strong/weak line: limits of validity
Can find experimentally from “curves of growth”
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Band models
A band is a spectral interval of a width Dv small enough to use a mean value of the Planck function Bv(T) but large enough to contain several absorption lines
Band models are introduced to simplify computation of spectral transmittance
Now we have found out how to calculate the equivalent width of a single line, need to consider how we deal with a band of many lines
Two main cases: 1)Lines with regular positions2)Lines with random positions
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Regular Elasser band model
See Liou p139-141 for derivation
This gives
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Principle of statistical band models
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Principle of statistical band models
where is the mean spacing
For multiple lines, transmission is exponential in W
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Goody statistical model
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Goody statistical model: weak and strong line limits
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Correlated k distribution
Here, the spectral lines are rearranged over a given spectral interval and a histogram produced
Absoprtion coefficient forrepresentative lines is multiplied by a weighting function representing frequency of occurance of this type of line
Typically useful to use 4 divisions per decade on log scale …
See Liou section 4.3 for a discussion of the limits of validity for this approximation
Liou, FIG 4.5
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Curtis – Godson approximation
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Curtis – Godson approximation
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Curtis – Godson approximation
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Curtis – Godson approximation
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MODTRAN4
A. Berk *, G.P. Anderson #, P.K. Acharya *, J.H. Chetwynd #, M.L. Hoke #,L.S. Bernstein
*, E.P. Shettle ^, M.W. Matthew *, and S.M. Adler-Golden
# US Air Force Research Laboratory
*Naval research Laboratory
• Atmosphere: gas profiles, temperature, pressure profiles, aerosol/cloud type & vertical distribution
• Surface type & measurement geometry
• Select calculation methods: eg. correlated K method, scattering (DISTORT)
2cm-1 resolution
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Who still uses band models (MODTRAN)?
UV/VIS atmospheric instruments where scattering important
Eg. SCISAT-1 MAESTRO McElroy, C.T. , A spectroradiometer for the measurement of direct and scattered solar spectral irradiance from on-board the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft, Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 1361-1364 (1995).
Multispectral imagers cloud, ozone, water vapour retrieval
Eg. MODIS Justice, C.et al, The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS): Land remote sensing for global change research, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 36, 1228-1249 (1998).
Hyperspectral imagers for atmospheric corrections
Eg. AVIRIS Berk, A, et al, MODTRAN Cloud and Multiple Scattering Upgrades with Application to AVIRIS, Remote Sens. Environ., 65, 367-375 (1998).
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MODTRAN dialogue windows
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