Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for Environmental Security

by Perrin, Agnes; Ben Sari-zizi, Najate; Demaison, Jean

• ISBN13: 9781402050886
• ISBN10: 1402050887
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Recent ecological disasters make human beings aware of changes in the Earth's climate. At the present time anthropogenic activities lead to the emission of greenhouse gases, pollutants, aerosols and ozone depleting substances and the scientific community in general feels responsible for understanding how changes in atmospheric chemistry can affect the Earth's climate. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was organized at Rabat (Morocco) on the 17-19th of November 2005 on the "Remote sensing of the Atmosphere for Environmental Security".The first part of the proceedings describes the current capabilities of various satellite experiments which are performing measurements of the Earth's atmosphere, as for example some of the results obtained recently by three experiments onboard the ENVISAT Environment Satellite (ENVISAT), namely, the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME), the SCanning Imaging Absorption for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) and the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS). For the analysis of spectra recorded by these instruments it is necessary to make good use of efficient radiative transfer codes. These computer codes need as input, a dataset of high quality spectroscopic parameters which can be generated only through a careful analysis of high quality laboratory measurements. In addition some of the future satellite missions which are under preparation at the European Space Agency (ESA) are briefly described.The characterisation of pollution in urban areas and the growing lack of water in many countries of the Mediterranean area are of universal concern. The extreme variability of the properties of aerosols in arid and semi arid areas is presented in the context of an experiment performed at Cairo (in Egypt). Finally, the understanding of climate chemistry couplings requires that ground-based and satellite information be confronted with the results of chemical transport and atmospheric models collected and discussed in the frame of international agencies.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Spectroscopic measurements of tropospheric composition from satellite measurements in the ultraviolet and visible: Steps toward continuous pollution monitoring from space	1	(26)
K. Chance
ESA spectroscopy studies in support of spaceborne atmospheric composition sounding	27	(14)
J. Langen
The MIPAS experiment aboard ENVISAT: remote sensing of atmospheric composition	41	(16)
H. Fischer
Performances of the operational retrieval code for MIPAS on ENVISAT and possible improvements of retrieval techniques for environment and climate	57	(14)
B. Carli
C. Belotti
S. Del Bianco
New measurements of trace species in the upper troposphere from infra-red spectra of the atmosphere	71	(16)
J.J. Remedios
D.P. Moore
P. Meacham
G. Allen
A.M. Waterfall
H. Sembhi
Remote sensing of the Non-LTE atmosphere	87	(20)
M. Lopez-Puertas
B. Funke
Quantitative spectroscopy and atmospheric measurements	107	(16)
J.-M. Flaud
A. Perrin
B. Picquet-Varrault
A. Gratien
J. Orphal
J.-F. Doussin
Quantitative laboratory spectroscopy of atmospheric trace gases	123	(16)
J. Vander Auwera
Global modeling of high-resolution spectra of linear molecules CO2,N2O and C2H2	139	(22)
V.I. Perevalov
S.A. Tashkun
O.M. Lyulin
J.-L. Teffo
CDSD-296, the high-precision carbon dioxide spectroscopic databank: version for atmospheric applications	161	(10)
S.A. Tashkun
V.I. Perevalov
J.-L. Teffo
Theoretical quantitative spectroscopy: computer simulation of molecular spectra	171	(14)
S. N. Yurchenko
J. Zheng
W. Thiel
M. Carvajal
H. Lin
P. Jensen
Recent results on infrared molecular line broadening and shift parameters	185	(18)
M.-A. H. Smith
Half-widths and line shifts of water vapor for atmospheric applications: measurement and theory	203	(18)
R.R. Gamache
B.K. Antony
Quantitative rotational spectroscopy for atmospheric research	221	(16)
G. Wlodarczak
J.-M. Colmont
F. Rohart
Pressure- broadening of the 22.2 GHz line of water: basic results for remote sensing of the atmosphere	237	(20)
G. Cazzoli
C. Puzzarini
G. Buffa
O. Tarrini
Rotational spectroscopy at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory	257	(14)
B.J. Drouin
Correlation between precipitable water and rainfall using Global Positioning System (GPS) technique	271	(14)
A. Fadil
D. Ben Sari
Extreme variability of aerosol optical properties: the Cairo aerosol characterization experiment case study	285	(16)
S.C. Alfaro
M. Abdel Wahab
Urban air pollution and its photochemistry studied by laser spectroscopic methods	301	(16)
Z. Zelinger
P. Kubat
M. Strizik
K. Bezpalcova
Z. Janour
P. Danihelka
S. Drabkova
M. Kozubkova
P. Berger
A. Cerny
P. Engst
The atmospheric chemistry Ether group: expertise and	317	(12)
database
Ph. Ricaud
R. Delmas
F. Girod
Th. Phulpin
C. Boonne
An integrated approach to study the chemistry-climate interactions in the atmosphere	329	(16)
P.C. Simon
M. De Maziere
M. Van Roozendael
J.-Ch. Lambert
List of contributors	345	(6)
Index of subjects	351