Articles | Volume 17, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1279-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-1279-2024
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22 Feb 2024
Research article |  | 22 Feb 2024

Global evaluation of fast radiative transfer model coefficients for early meteorological satellite sensors

Bruna Barbosa Silveira, Emma Catherine Turner, and Jérôme Vidot

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A fast radiative transfer model, used to speed up the full spectral simulation of meteorological satellite channels in weather forecast models, is tested using 25 000 modelled atmospheres. The differences between calculations from the fast and the high-resolution reference models are examined for nine historic weather satellite instruments. The study confirms that a reduced set of 83 atmospheric profiles is robust enough to estimate the scale of the differences obtained from the larger sample.
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