Lesson 1
Meteorological Satellite Orbits
Lesson 2
Review of Radiative Transfer
Lesson 3
Visible Image Interpretation
Lesson 4
Infrared Image Interpretation
Lesson 5
Multispectral Image Interpretation
Lesson 6
Fires & Aerosols
Lesson 7
Winds
Lesson 8
Sounders
Lesson 9
Fog and Stratus
Lesson 10
Thunderstorm
Lesson 11
Energy Budget
Lesson 12
Hurricanes
Lesson 13
Global Circulation
Lesson 14
Synoptic Scale
Lesson 15
Local Circulation
Lesson 16
Satellite Oceanography
Lesson 17
Precipitation

Lesson 2: Practice

The term

is referred to as the weighting function.

The weighting function provides in formation on what regions of the atmosphere are affection the satellite measurements. It is determined by the absorption properties of the a gas, the gas concentration, the vertical distribution of the gas and temperature profile. In this simplified exercise we neglect the temperature dependence and investigate how changinss in the line shape, the gas concentration, and the vertical distribution of the gas impact the weighting function.



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