Maximum likelihood representation of MIPAS profiles

von Clarmann, T.; Glatthor, N.; Plieninger, J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2749-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2749-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-2749-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 7

Research article

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09 Jul 2015

Research article |

| 09 Jul 2015

Maximum likelihood representation of MIPAS profiles

T. von Clarmann, N. Glatthor, and J. Plieninger

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RC C697: 'Review of "Maximum likelihood representation of MIPAS profiles" by T. von Clarmann et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Apr 2015
RC C1034: 'Review of “Maximum likelihood representation of MIPAS profiles” by von Clarmann et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 May 2015
AC C1219: 'Reply to the reviewers' comments', Thomas von Clarmann, 22 May 2015

Short summary

We propose a user-friendly representation of remotely sensed vertical profiles of atmospheric constituents. The data are provided on a fixed pressure grid coarse enough to allow a virtually unconstrained retrieval. Thus the data user need not apply the averaging kernel. To avoid data interpolation, the grid is chosen to be a subset of the pressure grid often used in the modelling community. For representation, the profiles have been transformed to rectangular base functions.