Abstract
The time-consuming nature of limb relaxation-type inversion algorithms is due primarily to the numerous integrations over an absorption band to obtain forward radiance values with which to compare measured values. A new method has been devised for the quick and accurate (0.5% error) calculation of single gas broadband (~100-cm−1) limb radiance. The method uses a precalculated data base consisting of homogeneous path emissivity vs mass path data for a wide range of temperature and pressure. A 50-km altitude range, 1-km resolution, constituent inversion employing this method requires under 1 sec of computational time when run on modern computer hardware. The method does not rely upon a priori statistical knowledge.
© 1981 Optical Society of America
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