大气Ring效应差分截面的计算

基于差分吸收光谱算法,使用卫星数据反演大气NO2和SO2等痕量气体柱浓度的时候,Ring效应是影响反演结果精度的一个重要因素。Ring效应是指:受太阳表面大气消光效应影响,产生称之为夫琅禾费线的暗线结构,而由于太阳光在地球大气中传输引起非弹性散射,导致观测到的夫琅禾费线变短,这个结果可以近似地认为是对夫琅禾费线的填充。研究表明,大气中的N2和O2分子的转动拉曼散射是导致Ring效应的主要原因。利用星载传感器OMI/AURA测量的太阳光谱和N2和O2分子的转动拉曼散射截面卷积,除以原始太阳光谱,再经过差分计算,可以获得Ring效应的差分截面,以用来反演痕量气体的浓度。计算的结果与利用辐射传输方程得到的结果比较,相关系数R2达到了0.9663,表明二者基本是一致的。

Study for differential cross section of ring effect

The Ring effect is a significant limitation to the accuracy of the retrieval of trace gas constituents in atmosphere, while using satellite data with differential optical absorption spectroscopy technique. The Ring effect refers to the filling in of Fraunhofer lines, known as solar absorption lines, caused almost entirely by rotational Raman scattering. The inelastic component of the molecular scattering results in a net increase in radiance in the line because more radiation is shifted to the wavelength of an absorption line than shifted from this wavelength to other wavelengths. The rotational Raman scattering by N2 and Oz in the atmosphere is the main factor that leads to Ring effect. Basically, the Ring effect is considered as a pseudo-absorption process in retrieval of trace gas constituents in atmosphere. The solar spectrum measured by OMI/AURA is convolved with rotational Raman cross sections of N2 and O2, divided by the original solar spectrum, with a cubic polynomial subtracted off, to create differential Ring spectrum. This method has been suggested in order to obtain an effective differential Ring cross-section for the DOAS fitting process. The differential Ring spectrum could be used to improve the accuracy of the retrieval of the trace gases concentration. The results in this paper have been in basic agreement with the corresponding results calculated with RTM, and the R2 Statistic is 0. 966 3.