ACP Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics ACP 1680-7324 Copernicus GmbH Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/acp-9-2241-2009 All weather IASI single field-of-view retrievals: case study – validation with JAIVEx data Zhou D. K. 1 Smith W. L. 2 3 Larar A. M. 1 Liu X. 1 Taylor J. P. 4 Schlüssel P. 5 Strow L. L. 6 Mango S. A. 7 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA Hampton University, Hampton, VA, USA University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA Met Office, Exeter, Devon, UK EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA NPOESS Integrated Program Office, Silver Spring, MD, USA 27 03 2009 9 6 2241 2255 This is an open-access article ditributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This article is available from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/2241/2009/acp-9-2241-2009.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/9/2241/2009/acp-9-2241-2009.pdf

Atmospheric thermodynamic parameters, such as atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles, cloud optical/microphysical properties, and surface properties are basic meteorological variables for weather forecasting. In addition, they are critical parameters in tropospheric chemistry studies. A physical, geophysical parameter retrieval scheme dealing with cloudy and cloud-free radiances observed with satellite ultraspectral infrared sounders has been developed to determine simultaneously surface, atmospheric thermodynamic, and cloud microphysical parameters. A one-dimensional variational (1-D Var.) multivariable inverse solution of the radiative transfer equation is used to iteratively improve a background state defined by eigenvector regression. This algorithm has been applied to data from the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on the EUMETSAT Metop-A satellite. The IASI retrieved parameters presented herein are from radiance data gathered during the Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment (JAIVEx). JAIVEx provided intensive aircraft observations obtained from airborne Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) systems, such as the NPOESS Airborne Sounder Testbed – Interferometer (NAST-I), in-situ measurements, and dedicated dropsonde and radiosonde measurements for the validation of the IASI products. Here, IASI atmospheric profile retrievals are compared with those obtained from dedicated dropsondes, radiosondes, and the airborne FTS system. The IASI examples presented here demonstrate the ability to retrieve fine-scale horizontal features with high vertical resolution from satellite ultraspectral sounder radiance spectra.

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