Updated spectral radiance calibration on TIR bands for TANSO-FTS-2 onboard GOSAT-2
<p>The Thermal and Near-Infrared Sensor for Carbon Observation Fourier-Transform Spectrometer-2 (TANSO-FTS-2) onboard the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite-2 (GOSAT-2) observes a wide spectral region of the atmosphere, from the ShortWave-InfraRed (SWIR) to the longwave Thermal Infr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Atmospheric Measurement Techniques |
| Online Access: | https://amt.copernicus.org/articles/15/5399/2022/amt-15-5399-2022.pdf |
| Summary: | <p>The Thermal and Near-Infrared Sensor for Carbon Observation Fourier-Transform Spectrometer-2 (TANSO-FTS-2) onboard the
Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite-2 (GOSAT-2) observes a wide
spectral region of the atmosphere, from the ShortWave-InfraRed (SWIR) to the
longwave Thermal InfraRed radiation (TIR) with 0.2 cm<span class="inline-formula"><sup>−1</sup></span> spectral
sampling, and the corresponding spectral resolution (full width at half
maximum, FWHM) of TIR region is less than 0.27 cm<span class="inline-formula"><sup>−1</sup></span>. TANSO-FTS-2 has
operated nominally since February 2019, and the atmospheric radiance spectra it
has acquired have been released to the public. This paper describes an
updated model for spectral radiance calibration and its validation. The
model applies to the version v210210 TIR products of TANSO-FTS-2 and
integrates polarization sensitivity correction for the internal optics and
the pointing mirror thermal emission. These correction parameters are
characterized by an optimization that depends on the difference between the
spectral radiance of TANSO-FTS-2 and coincident nadir observation data from
the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) on METOP-B. To
validate the updated spectral radiance product against other satellite
products, temporally and spatially coincident observation points were
considered for the simultaneous nadir overpass (SNO) from February 2019 to March 2021 from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) on Aqua, IASI on METOP-B, and TANSO-FTS on GOSAT. The agreement of brightness temperatures between TANSO-FTS-2 and AIRS and IASI was better than 0.3 K (1<span class="inline-formula"><i>σ</i></span>) from 180 to 330 K for the 680 cm<span class="inline-formula"><sup>−1</sup></span> CO<span class="inline-formula"><sub>2</sub></span> spectral range. The brightness temperatures between TANSO-FTS-2 and TANSO-FTS of version v230231, which implemented a new polarization reflectivity of the pointing mirror and was released in June 2021, generally agree from 220 to 320 K. However, there is a discrepancy at lower brightness temperatures, pronounced for CO<span class="inline-formula"><sub>2</sub></span> spectral ranges at high latitudes. To characterize the spectral radiance bias for along-track and cross-track angles, a 2-orthogonal simultaneous off-nadir overpass (2O-SONO) is now done for TANSO-FTS-2 and IASI, TANSO-FTS-2 and AIRS, and TANSO-FTS-2 and TANSO-FTS. The 2O-SONO comparison results indicate that the TIR product for TANSO-FTS-2 has a bias that exceeds 0.5 K in the CO<span class="inline-formula"><sub>2</sub></span> spectral range for scenes with forward and backward viewing angles greater than 20<span class="inline-formula"><sup>∘</sup></span>. These multi-satellite sensor and multi-angle comparison results suggest that the calibration of spectral radiance for TANSO-FTS-2 TIR, version v210210, is superior to that of the previous version in its consistency of multi-satellite sensor data. In addition, the paper identifies the remaining challenging issues in current TIR products.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1867-1381 1867-8548 |