Research Projects

The vertical temperature profile and the vertical distribution of all the constituents determine the radiance emerging from the atmosphere and reaching the satellite sensor. Multichannel infrared radiometers on board meteorological satellites measure the radiances through limb or nadir viewing. Hence the temperature and minor constituents in different layers of the atmosphere can be retrieved using radiative transfer algorithm which uses set of integro-differential equations. The solutions for these equations can be obtained in terms of deriving source function (absorption or scattering) in the atmosphere.