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JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER
Volume 173, Issue -, Pages 65-71Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.01.014
Keywords
Radiative transfer; Principal component analysis; Performance enhancement; Shortwave broadband; Visible & infrared
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- NASA [NNX13AK34G]
- Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2)
- NASA [NNX13AK34G, 471428] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Accurate radiative transfer (RT) calculations are necessary for many earth-atmosphere applications, from remote sensing retrieval to climate modeling. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA)-based spectral binning method has been shown to provide an order of magnitude increase in computational speed while maintaining an overall accuracy of 0.01% (compared to line-by-line calculations) over narrow spectral bands. In this paper, we have extended the PCA method for RT calculations over the entire shortwave region of the spectrum from 0.3 to 3 microns. The region is divided into 33 spectral fields covering all major gas absorption regimes. We find that the RT performance runtimes are shorter by factors between 10 and 100, while root mean square errors are of order 0.01%. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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