Publications on Automatic Differentiation of Radiative Transfer Models

M. Clerici, M. Voßbeck, B. Pinty, T. Kaminski, M. Taberner, T. Lavergne, and I. Andredakis. Consolidating the Two-stream Inversion Package (JRC-TIP). IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2010.
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M. Voßbeck, M. Clerici, T. Kaminski, B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, and R. Giering. An inverse radiative transfer model of the vegetation canopy based on automatic differentiation. Inverse Problems, 26, 2010.
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B. Pinty, M. Clerici, I. Andredakis, M. Voßbeck, T. Lavergne, T. Kaminski, M. Taberner, and N. Gobron. Retrieving Essential Climate Variables over Land from Operational Surface Albedo Products. Extended Abstract for the 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Stresa, Italy, May 4-8, 2009.
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B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, T. Kaminski, N. Gobron, and M. Taberner. Validation of the MERIS FAPAR L2 Products against Independent Estimates Derived from the MODIS and MISR Surface Albedo Operational products. In Proceedings of 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop, Frascati, Italy. European Space Agency, 2008.
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B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, T. Kaminski, O. Aussedat, R. Giering, N. Gobron, M. Taberner, M. M. Verstraete, M. Voßbeck, and J.-L. Widlowski. Partitioning the solar radiant fluxes in forest canopies in the presence of snow. J. Geophys. Res., 113, 2008.
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The paper describes another application of the JRC-TIP inverse modeling package for estimation of parameters of a radiative transfer model together with their uncertainty ranges. The required adjoint and Hessian code have been generated by TAC++.

B. Pinty, T. Lavergne, M. Voßbeck, T. Kaminski, O. Aussedat, R. Giering, N. Gobron, M. Taberner, M. M. Verstraete, and J.-L. Widlowski. Retrieving surface parameters for climate models from MODIS-MISR albedo products. J. Geophys. Res., 112, 2007.
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The paper describes and applies an inverse modeling package for estimation of parameters of a radiative transfer model together with their uncertainty ranges. The required adjoint and Hessian code have been generated by TAC++.

K.F. Evans. SHDOMPPDA: A radiative transfer model for cloudy sky data assimilation. J. Atmos. Sci., 64(11):3854-3864, 2007.

T. Lavergne, T. Kaminski, B. Pinty, M. Taberner, N. Gobron, M. M. Verstraete, M. Voßbeck, J.-L. Widlowski, and R. Giering. Application to MISR Land Products of an RPV Model Inversion Package using Adjoint and Hessian Codes. Remote Sensing of the Environment, (107):362-375, 2006.
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The paper describes and applies an inverse modeling package for estimation of parameters of a radiative transfer model and their uncertainty ranges. The required gradient and Hessian code have been generated by TAF.

Thomas Lavergne, Michael Voßbeck, Bernard Pinty, Thomas Kaminski, and Ralf Giering. Evaluation of the two-stream inversion package. EUR 22467 EN, European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, 2006.
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