Remote Sensing of the Environment and Radiation Transfer

Gradiation in the earth atmosphere.- Special features of self-surface (heat) radiation forming.- Calculation of the intensity of self heat radiation of the system "surface-atmosphere.- Study of depending the uncertainty of the remote surface temperature retrieval on the initial parameters exactness.- The thermal remote sounding of the atmosphere.- Calculating optical characteristics of atmospheric aerosol.- Calculating solar radiative characteristics in clouds with asymptotic formulas of the radiative transfer theory.- Calculating solar irradiance with the Eddington method.-Monte-Carlo method for the solar irradiance calculation.- Calculating radiative characteristics in approximation of the single scattering.- . Analysis of the reflection anisotropy. case study: the numerical simulation of waving water surface.- the direct calculation of the absorption coefficient of gaseous constituents of the atmosphere with the use of parameters of the fine structure of the absorption bands.- Calculating transmission functions with modeling absorption bands of atmospheric gases.- Construction and operation of the automated one-channel ir-radiometer.- Remote measurement of the surface temperature field with the automated one-channel ir-radiometer .- Quantification and analysis of the spectral composition of subsurface solar radiation diffuse reflectance in cases of deep and shallow water bodies.- Simulations and analyses of variations in colorimetric properties of natural waters with specific reference to waters with significant spatial heterogeneity of optical properties.- Retrieval of cpa concentrations from the spectral composition of subsurface water column diffuse reflectance: application to environmental remote sensing tasks.

Irina N. Melnikova is head of the Laboratory for Atmospheric Physics Research Center for Interdisciplinary Environmental Cooperation RAS (INENCO) in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her main interest and publications are in the field of solar radiation in clouds and atmospheric aerosol, atmospheric pollution, atmospheric correction in remote sensing problems, inverse problems of atmoshperic optics, radiation budget of the atmosphere.