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Forward model emulator for atmospheric radiative transfer using Gaussian processes and cross validation
Otto Lamminpää
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jouni Susiluoto
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jonathan Hobbs
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
James McDuffie
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Amy Braverman
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Houman Owhadi
Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Short summary
We develop and demonstrate a fast forward function emulator for remote sensing of greenhouse gases. These forward functions are computationally expensive to evaluate, and as such the key challenge for many satellite missions in their data processing is the time used in these evaluations. Our method is fast and accurate enough, less than 1 % relative error, so that it could be safely used in operational processing.
We develop and demonstrate a fast forward function emulator for remote sensing of greenhouse...