"Nitrous Oxide Profiling from Infrared Radiances (NOPIR): Algorithm Des" by Sophie Vandenbussche, Bavo Langerock et al.
Nitrous oxide (N2 O) is the third most abundant anthropogenous greenhouse gas (after carbon dioxide and methane), with a long atmospheric lifetime and a continuously increasing concentration due to human activities, making it an important gas to monitor. In this work, we present a new method to retrieve N2 O concentration profiles (with up to two degrees of freedom) from each cloud-free satellite observation by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), using spectral micro-windows in the N2 O ν3 band, the Radiative Transfer for TOVS (RTTOV) tools and the Tikhonov regularization...
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