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Radiative transfer model intercomparisons

Intercomparisons co-ordinated by the RTSP-WG

  • The AIRS RT model intercomparison co-ordinated by Roger Saunders was completed in January 2006. A paper has been submitted to JGR Atmospheres.
  • The Garand intercomparison of fast and line-by-line radiative transfer model calculations for ATOVS channels, co-ordinated by Louis Garand, was completed in 2001. The results of this intercomparison were published in JGR Atmospheres (full reference below).

Intercomparisons co-ordinated by other groups

  • The Line-by-line Intercomparison Experiment (LIE) was sponsored by Eumetsat and the IASI Science Sounder Working Group (ISSWG), and co-ordinated by Stephen Tjemkes. The results of the LIE are documented in the Eumetsat Technical Memorandum TM08 and were published in the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (full reference below).
  • The GVaP HIRS-12 channel intercomparison was co-ordinated by Brian Soden. The results of this intercomparison were reported in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (full reference below).

References for intercomparison publications

Garand L, Turner DS, Larocque M, Bates J, Boukabara S, Brunel P, Chevallier F, Deblonde G, Engelen R, Hollingshead M, Jackson D, Jedlovec G, Joiner J, Kleespies T, McKague DS, McMillin L, Moncet JL, Pardo JR, Rayer PJ, Salathe E, Saunders R, Scott NA, Van Delst P, Woolf H, Radiance and Jacobian intercomparison of radiative transfer models applied to HIRS and AMSU channels, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 106 (D20): 24017-24031, 2001

Tjemkes SA, Patterson T, Rizzi R, Shephard MW, Clough SA, Matricardi M, Haigh JD, Hopfner M, Payan S, Trotsenko A, Scott N, Rayer P, Taylor JP, Clerbaux C, Strow LL, DeSouza-Machado S, Tobin D, Knuteson R , The ISSWG line-by-line intercomparison experiment, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 77(4) 433:453, 2003.

Soden B, Tjemkes S, Schmetz J, Saunders R, Bates J, Ellingson B, Engelen R, Garand L, Jackson D, Jedlovec G, Kleespies T, Randel D, Rayer P, Salathe E, Schwarzkopf D, Scott N, Sohn B, de Souza-Machado S, Strow L, Tobin D, Turner D, van Delst P, Wehr T, An intercomparison of radiation codes for retrieving upper-tropospheric humidity in the 6.3 micron band: A report from the first GVaP Workshop, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81(4), 797-808, 2000.