[1] The quality of the retrieved temperature and moisture profiles acquired from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) aboard the NASA Aqua spacecraft was evaluated by comparing the data with dropsonde observations obtained from NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (NAMMA 2006) and international THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T‐PARC 2008) field programs. Results indicate ...

In this paper multi-microphone dereverberation is considered under the constraint that no or little additional delay should be introduced by the FIR deconvolution filters. This is crucial for a number of applications such as hearing aids etc. Assuming that the acoustic impulse responses (AIRs) are known – e.g. by estimation, we determine the maximum degree of attainable dereverberation. Even th...

Observations from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) have been operationally assimilated into the Met Office’s Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model since 26 May 2004. AIRS observations are screened by a 1D-Var pre-processing stage before being passed to the Met Office’s 4D-Var data assimilation system. The 1D-Var pre-processing stage is used for quality control, bias correction, cloud ...

An accurate land surface emissivity (LSE) is critical for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles along with land surface temperature from hyperspectral infrared (IR) sounder radiances; it is also critical to assimilating IR radiances in numerical weather prediction models over land. To investigate the impact of different LSE datasets on Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS...

Raytheon’s Infrared Operations (RIO) has invented and developed a new type of focal plane array with “Image Processing on-the-chip” named the Adaptive IR Sensor (AIRS). The AIRS FPA is based upon the human retina in that it performs signal processing near the photoreceptors. The AIRS FPA has been reduced to practice and adaptively removes detector and optic temperature drift and 1/f induced fix...

[1] We developed an efficient thermal infrared radiative transfer model on the basis of the delta-four-stream approximation to facilitate high-spectral-resolution remote sensing applications under cirrus cloudy conditions in the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) data. Numerical experiments demonstrated that sensitivity in the 800-1130 cm 1 thermal infrared window spectral region is sufficient...

AIRS, a resource limited artificial immune classifier system, has performed well on various classification tasks, including data clustering. This thesis proposes the use of this system for the complex task of multi-class document classification. Initially the AIRS system is validated using a standard machine learning dataset, which has not been used previously with this classifier. The use of A...

This paper presents a comparison of CO2 products derived from Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY), Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) and Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), with reference to calibration data obtained using the high-resolution ground-based Fourier Transform Spectrometers (g-b FTS) in the Total Carbon Column Observing Netwo...

BACKGROUND Nitric oxide is important in vasomotor regulation. Contamination of anaesthetic gases with nitric oxide could affect gas exchange. METHODS We measured oxygenation and nitric oxide concentrations in the inspiratory and expiratory limb of the ventilator circuit in patients about to have cardiac surgery. Measurements were made before surgery when the circulation and respiratory condit...