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Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud
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Update to the aerosol retrieval #60

Closed adamcpovey closed 1 year ago

adamcpovey commented 3 years ago

This pull request does three things:

The first is hopefully useful for all retrieval modes, but was added to identify a large number of barely converged retrievals of 0.01 optical depth in the aerosol retrieval over land.

The second only affects aerosol retrievals over land. I find it reduces the number of iterations needed to converge, ensures that the number of degrees of freedom for noise behaves similarly to other retrieval modes, and improves agreement with AERONET. But it means we have a second arbitrary parameter in the Swansea forward model (the other being gamma).

The third will only affect processing that requires QCFlag == 0. Having eliminated the unconstrained variable, I now find that the retrieval behaves erratically when there is an entire degree of freedom for noise. (To be specific, in most circumstances the DoFN increase as the AOD decrease but, once DoFN >= 1, we tend to get AOD == 0.01 and erratic values of AER.)

adamcpovey commented 2 years ago

Reminder that I would quite like second opinions on this, particularly from @garethethomas