Articles | Volume 15, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-573-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-573-2022
Research article
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03 Feb 2022
Research article |  | 03 Feb 2022

The FORUM end-to-end simulator project: architecture and results

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The FORUM instrument will look at the Earth's atmosphere from a satellite, covering a spectral range responsible for about 95 % of the radiation lost by our planet. FORUM helps to measure the imbalance between incoming and outgoing radiation that is responsible for the increasing average temperatures on Earth. The end-to-end simulator is a chain of codes that simulates the FORUM measurement process. The goal of the project is to study how the instrument reacts to different retrieval conditions.