Degenstein Douglas A, Llewellyn Edward J, Lloyd Nicholas D
Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies, Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, 116 Science Place, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5E2, Canada.
Appl Opt. 2003 Mar 10;42(8):1441-50. doi: 10.1364/ao.42.001441.
The possibility of retrieving horizontal atmospheric structure from a series of limb images taken aboard a satellite is discussed and a maximum likelihood expectation maximization algorithm is developed. Examples of the retrieval of horizontal structure with this algorithm, for different S/N (signal-to-noise) ratios and different structures, are presented. It is shown that with this algorithm and even in the presence of substantial observational noise, a S/N equal to 10 for a single observation, it is possible to retrieve both horizontal and vertical atmospheric structure.
