Inversion of solar transmitted radiance profiles for the atmospheric optical thickness

摘要

In a series of papers (Refs. [1–12]), quasilinearization and invariant imbedding have been successfully applied to an inversion of total spectral radiance profiles remotely sensed from space for determining the atmospheric optical properties and the ground albedo, in a least square sense. In the present paper, with the aid of quasilinearization and invariant imbedding, a statistical estimation of the atmospheric optical thickness is made, using solar noisy transmitted radiance measurements on the ground.