% homework 8 % Due: Thursday, April 1 % Radiation objective: % To understand the spectral relationship between cirrus emissivity % Brightness temperature % Matlab Objective: % To use a computer program to explore relationships between two or % more paramters. % Calls planck_wl function to calculate planck radiance % bt_wl function to calculate brightness temperatures emi = [0:.1:1]; % Emissivity Tcloud = 210; % Temperature of cloud Tbase_11 = 287; % Brightness temperature of radiance Tbase_12 = 282; % incident at cloud base % Radiance calculations irradtop_11 = planck_wl(11,Tbase_11)*(1-emi) + planck_wl(11,Tcloud)*emi; Bttop_11 = bt_wl(11,irradtop_11); irradtop_12 = planck_wl(12,Tbase_12)*(1-emi) + planck_wl(12,Tcloud)*emi; Bttop_12 = bt_wl(12,irradtop_12); subplot(2,1,1) plot(emi,Bttop_11,'-','linewidth',[1.5]) hold on plot(emi,Bttop_12,'--','linewidth',[1.5]) hold off title('Brightness Temperature vs Emissivity of Cirrus Cloud') xlabel('Emissivity') ylabel('Brightness Temperature (K)') [lh,oh] = legend('11 \mum','12 \mum'); set(oh(:,2),'fontsize',[10],'fontunits','points') subplot(2,1,2) plot(emi,Bttop_11-Bttop_12,'-','linewidth',[1.5]) title('Brightness Temperature Difference vs Emissivity of Cirrus Cloud') xlabel('Emissivity') ylabel('BT_{11\mum} - BT_{12\mum} (K)')