References

Journal articles

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  • Di Natale, G., Barucci, M., Belotti, C., Bianchini, G., D’Amato, F., Del Bianco, S., Gai, M., Montori, A., Sussmann, R., Viciani, S., Vogelmann, H., and Palchetti, L.: Comparison of mid-latitude single- and mixed-phase cloud optical depth from co-located infrared spectrometer and backscatter lidar measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 6749–6758, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6749-2021, 2021.
  • William Cossich, Tiziano Maestri, Davide Magurno, Michele Martinazzo, Gianluca Di Natale, Luca Palchetti, Giovanni Bianchini, and Massimo Del Guasta, Ice and Mixed-Phase Cloud Statistics on Antarctic Plateau, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 21, 13811–13833, 2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-13811-2021.
  • Palchetti, L. and Brindley, H. and Bantges, R. and Buehler, S. A. and Camy-Peyret, C. and Carli, B. and Cortesi, U. and Del Bianco, S. and Di Natale, G. and Dinelli, B. M. and Feldman, D. and Huang, X. L. and C.-Labonnote, L. and Libois, Q. and Maestri, T. and Mlynczak, M. G. and Murray, J. E. and Oetjen, H. and Ridolfi, M. and Riese, M. and Russell, J. and Saunders, R. and Serio, C. (2020), FORUM: unique far-infrared satellite observations to better understand how Earth radiates energy to space. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0322.1.
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  • Ridolfi, M.; Del Bianco, S.; Di Roma, A.; Castelli, E.; Belotti, C.; Dandini, P.; Di Natale, G.; Dinelli, B.M.; C.-Labonnote, L.; Palchetti, L. FORUM Earth Explorer 9: Characteristics of Level 2 Products and Synergies with IASI-NG. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1496, doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091496.
  • Charlotte Pachot, Bernardo Carnicero Dominguez, Hilke Oetjen, Bernd Sierk, Flavio Mariani, Stefanie Riel, Gonçalo Rodrigues, Miguel Copano, Asier Martínez Carou, Luca Palchetti, Magdalena Lippa, Philippe Giaccari, Carmine Mastrandrea, Gaetan Perron, Corneli Keim, and Manfred-Georg Kolm “The infrared Fourier transform spectrometer and the infrared imager instrument concepts for the FORUM mission, ESA’s 9th Earth Explorer”, Proc. SPIE 11530, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XXIV, 115300D (20 September 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2570867
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  • Bianchini B., L.Palchetti, B.Carli, (2006a), A wide-band nadir-sounding spectroradiometer for the characterisation of the Earth’s outgoing long-wave radiation, in “Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites X”, Roland Meynart; Steven P. Neeck; Haruhisa Shimoda Editors, Proceedings SPIE 6361, 63610A. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.689260
  • Bellisario, C., Brindley, H. E., Tett, S. F. B., Rizzi, R., Di Natale, G., Palchetti, L., and Bianchini, G.: Can downwelling far-infrared radiances over Antarctica be estimated from mid-infrared information?, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., accepted 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2018-729
  • Bianchini G., F. Castagnoli, M. Pellegrini,and L.Palchetti, (2006b), Frictionless mirror drive for intermediate resolution infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, Infr. Phys. Tech. 48/3, pp. 217-222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2005.09.002
  • Bianchini G., B. Carli, U. Cortesi, S. Del Bianco, M. Gai, and L. Palchetti, (2008)“Test of far infrared atmospheric spectroscopy using wide-band balloon borne measurements of the upwelling radiance”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 109, 1030-1042. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.11.010
  • Bianchini G., Carli B., Palchetti L., (2009), Vectorial combination of signals in Fourier transform spectroscopy, Infr. Phys. & Tech 52(1), 19-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2008.09.004
  • Bianchini, G., Castagnoli, F., Di Natale, G. and Palchetti, L. A Fourier transform spectroradiometer for ground-based remote sensing of the atmospheric downwelling long-wave radiance, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2019, Vol. 12(1), pp. 619-635
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  • Carli B., A.Barbis, J.E.Harries, L.Palchetti, (1999a), Design of an efficient broad band far infrared FT spectrometer, Applied Optics Vol. 38, No. 18, pp. 3945-3950. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.38.003945
  • Carli B., L.Palchetti, P.Raspollini, (1999b), Effect of beam splitter emission in Fourier-transform spectroscopy, Applied Optics Vol. 38, No. 36. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.38.007475
  • Di Natale G, Palchetti L, Bianchini G and Del Guasta M (2017), Simultaneous retrieval of water vapour, temperature and cirrus clouds properties from measurements of far infrared spectral radiance over the Antarctic Plateau, Atmos. Meas. Tech.. Vol. 10(3), pp. 825-837. http:// https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-825-2017
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  • Harries J., B. Carli,R. Rizzi, C. Serio, M. Mlynczak, L. Palchetti, T. Maestri, H. Brindley, and G. Masiello, (2008), The Far Infrared Earth, Reviews of Geophysics, 46, RG4004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007RG000233
  • Maestri, T., Arosio, C., Rizzi, R., Palchetti, L., Bianchini, G., & Del Guasta, M. ( 2019). Antarctic ice cloud identification and properties using downwelling spectral radiance from 100 to 1,400 cm−1. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 4761– 4781. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029205
  • Mlawer, E. J., Turner, D. D., Paine, S. N., Palchetti, L., Bianchini, G., Payne, V. H., et al ( 2019). Analysis of water vapor absorption in the far‐infrared and submillimeter regions using surface radiometric measurements from extremely dry locations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD029508
  • Palchetti L., A.Barbis, J.E.Harries, D.Lastrucci, (1999), Design and mathematical modelling of the space-borne far- infrared Fourier transform spectrometer for REFIR experiment, Infrared Physics & Technology Vol. 40, pp. 367-377. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1350-4495(99)00026-2
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  • Palchetti L., F.Esposito, R.Rizzi, C.Serio, V.Cuomo, (2002), Radiation Explorer in the Far InfraRed BreadBoard (REFIR/BB) for atmospheric emission measurement in the 100-1100cm-1 spectral range, Proceedings SPIE 4881, Edr. H.Fujisada, J.B.Lurie, M.L.Aten, K.Webe, Agia Pelagia, Creta, Greece, pp. 448-459. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.462617
  • Palchetti L., G.Bianchini, F.Castagnoli, B. Carli, C. Serio, F.Esposito, V.Cuomo, R.Rizzi, T. (2005) Maestri, Breadboard of the Fourier transform spectrometer for the Radiation Explorer in the Far Infrared (REFIR) atmospheric mission, Applied Optics, Vol.44, No.14, pp.2870-2878. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.44.002870
  • Palchetti L., C.Belotti, G.Bianchini, F.Castagnoli, B.Carli, U.Cortesi, M.Pellegrini, C.Camy-Peyret, P.Jeseck, and Y.Té, (2006), Technical note: First spectral measurement of the Earth s upwelling emission using an uncooled wideband Fourier transform spectrometer, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 6, pp.5025-5030. http:// https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-6-5025-2006
  • Palchetti L., G.Bianchini, B.Carli, U.Cortesi, S.Del Bianco, (2008a), Measurement of the water vapour vertical profile and of the Earth’s outgoing far infrared flux, Atmos. Chem. Phys. 8, 2885-2894. http:// https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-8-2885-2008
  • Palchetti L., G.Bianchini, F.Castagnoli, (2008b), Design and characterisation of black-body sources for infrared wide-band Fourier transform spectroscopy, Infrar. Phys. & Tech. 51, pp. 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infrared.2007.06.001
  • Palchetti, L., Bianchini, G, Di Natale, G, Del Guasta, M, (2015), Far infrared radiative properties of water vapor and clouds in Antarctica. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 96, 1505–1518. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00286.1
  • Palchetti, L., G. Di Natale, and G. Bianchini (2016), Remote sensing of cirrus cloud microphysical properties using spectral measurements over the full range of their thermal emission, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 10,804–10,819. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025162
  • Rizzi, R., C. Arosio, T. Maestri, L. Palchetti, G. Bianchini, and M. Del Guasta (2016), One year of downwelling spectral radiance measurements from 100 to 1400 cm -1 at Dome Concordia: Results in clear conditions, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 10,937–10,953. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD025341

Conference papers

  • G. Bianchini and L. Palchetti, “The REFIR-PAD far-infrared Fourier transform spectroradiometer,” in Imaging and Applied Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper FMC4. https://doi.org/10.1364/FTS.2011.FMC4
  • G. Bianchini, L. Palchetti, and M. Del Guasta, “Characterization of the Radiative Properties of Cirrus Clouds With a Wide-band Fourier Transform Spectroradiometer,” in Imaging and Applied Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper FTh2D.3. https://doi.org/10.1364/FTS.2013.FTh2D.3
  • Giovanni Bianchini, Gianluca Di Natale, Francesco Castagnoli, and Luca Palchetti, A Fourier Transform Spectroradiometer for the Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Emission from Ground Bases in Extreme Environments, OSA FTS 2015, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA, 01 – 04 March 2015.
  • Giovanni Bianchini, Gianluca Di Natale, Massimo Del Guasta, and Luca Palchetti, Two years of spectrally-resolved measurements of the Antarctic downwelling atmospheric radiance within the COMPASS project , OSA FTS 2016, Leipzig, Germany, 14 – 17 November 2016.
  • Bianchini G. Palchetti L., Di Natale G., Characterization of the Antarctic atmosphere with (mostly) optical methods: the COMPASS project, 101° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica, Roma 21-25 settembre 2015, atticon8951 IV-C-1.
  • Paolo Dandini, Marco Ridolfi, William Cossich, Samuele Del Bianco, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Alessio Di Roma, Tiziano Maestri, Luca Palchetti, Iacopo Sbrolli, Retrieval of minor atmospheric constituents from far-infrared FORUM measurements, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018-14643, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018, 8 — 13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.
  • Gianluca Di Natale, Luca Palchetti, Giovanni Bianchini, Massimo Del Guasta, Retrieval of Antarctic cirrus cloud micro-physics from measurements of far infrared spectral radiance, OSA FTS 2016, Leipzig, Germany, 14 – 17 November 2016.
  • Di Natale G. L. Palchetti, G. Bianchini, M. Del Guasta, Caratterizzazione ottica e microfisica delle nubi sottili antartiche tramite la combinazione di misure lidar e spettroscopiche nell’infrarosso termico, 101° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Fisica, Roma 21-25 settembre 2015, atticon8944 IV-C-3.
  • Bianca Maria Dinelli, Tiziano Maestri, Samuele Del Bianco, Alessio Di Roma, Luca Palchetti, Marco Ridolfi, Elisa Castelli, William Cossich, Sensitivity of FORUM EE9 to trace gases, ice clouds and surface properties, ATMOS 2018 congress, 26 — 29 November 2018, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Dinelli B. M., Palchetti L., Ridolfi M., Maestri T., FORUM: a mission to characterise the far-infrared spectrum of the Earth outgoing long-wave radiation, Primo Congresso Nazionale della Associazione Italiana Scienze dell’Atmosfera e Meteorologia (AISAM) Bologna 10-13/9/2018.
  • Bianca Maria Dinelli, A. Di Roma, L. Palchetti, P. Raspollini, M. Ridolfi, J-M Flaud, Satellite remote sensing of the atmosphere: past (MIPAS) and future (FORUM) challenges, 15th International HITRAN Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 13-15 June 2018
  • B.M. Dinelli, E. Castelli, A. Di Roma, S. Del Bianco, L. Palchetti, M. Ridolfi, R. Saunders, H. Oetjen and B. Carnicero Dominguez, Sensitivity of FORUM/EE9 to trace gases and surface properties in clear sky, Living Planet Symposium, Milan, 13-17 May 2019.
  • Alessio Di Roma, Elisa Castelli, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Luca Palchetti, and Marco Ridolfi, Assessment of the impact of the systematic errors on the retrieval of geophysical parameters from FORUM measurements: methods and results, abstract EGU2019-15944, European Geoscience Union 2019 Congress, 7 — 12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
  • Irene Fiorucci, Giovanni Muscari, Cesidio Bianchi, Paolo Di Girolamo, Francesco Esposito, Giuseppe Grieco, Donato Summa, Giovanni Bianchini, Luca Palchetti, Marco Cacciani, Tatiana Di Iorio, Giulia Pavese, Domenico Cimini, and Robert L. de Zafra, An Intercomparison of Precipitable Water Vapor Measurements Obtained During the ECOWAR Field Campaign, AIP Conf. Proc. — March 11, 2009 — Volume 1100, pp. 135-138, Current problems in atmospheric radiation (IRS 2008): Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS); Issue Date: 11 March 2009. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3116932
  • G. Masiello, C. Serio, F. Esposito, P. Di Girolamo, and L. Palchetti, Impact of new water vapor continuum coefficients in the far infrared on atmospheric fluxes and cooling rates, AIP Conf. Proc. — March 11, 2009 — Volume 1100, pp. 139-142, Current problems in atmospheric radiation (IRS 2008): Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS); Issue Date: 11 March 2009. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3116933
  • L.Palchetti, G.Bianchini, B.Carli, U.Cortesi, e S.Del Bianco, “Flusso radiativo della Terra verso lo spazio ed effetto serra”, CNR.IT Highlights CNR 2008-2009, p. 45, 2010.
  • L. Palchetti, B.Carli, G.Bianchini, “Wideband far infrared FTS for the FORUM explorer mission,” in Imaging and Applied Optics, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2011), paper FMA4. Toronto, 10-14 July, 2011. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FTS-2011-FMA4
  • L. Palchetti and G. Bianchini, “Ground-Based Measurements of Atmospheric Thermal Emission Using the Radiation Explorer in the Far Infrared Prototype,” in Imaging and Applied Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper FTh2C.2. FTS 2013 – OSA Topical Meeting, Arlington VA, 23 – 27 June 2013. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FTS-2013-FTh2C.2
  • Luca Palchetti, Giovanni Bianchini, Radiometric calibration of the Radiation Explorer in the Far InfraRed prototype, OSA FTS 2015, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA, 01 – 04 March 2015.
  • Luca Palchetti, Giovanni Bianchini, Gianluca Di Natale, Samuele Del Bianco, Simone Ceccherini, Far–IR Spectral Observations of the Earth’s Longwave Radiation and their Role in Climate Studies, OSA HISE 2016, Leipzig, Germany, 14 – 17 November 2016 (invited).
  • Luca Palchetti, Monica Olivieri, Carlo Pompei, Demetrio Labate, Helen Brindley, Gianluca Di Natale, Giovanni Bianchini, and the FORUM team 4, The Far Infrared FTS for the FORUM Mission, OSA FTS 2016, Leipzig, Germany, 14 – 17 November 2016.
  • L. Palchetti, U. Cortesi, B. M. Dinelli, T. Maestri, G. Di Natale, G. Bianchini, H. Brindley, J. Murray, S. Del Bianco, M. Ridolfi, Stratospheric High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites and their role in advancing understanding of the Earth’s thermal emission, Towards an ESA Stratospheric High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS) programme for Earth Observation, Telecommunications and Navigation, 9 — 10 October 2017, European Space Agency ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
  • Luca Palchetti, Helen Brindley, Peter Ade, Richard Allan, Anthony Baran, Claude Camy-Peyret, Ugo Cortesi, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Tiziano Maestri, Javier Martin-Torres, Alberto Ortolani, Marco Ridolfi, Carmine Serio, Simon Tett, Martin Wild, Christos Zerefos, Maria-PAZ Zorzano, Demetrio Labate, FORUM: a mission to characterise the far-infrared spectrum of the Earth, EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2017, 2 — 6 October 2017, Rome, Italy.
  • Luca Palchetti, Marco Ridolfi, and the FORUM team, The FORUM ESA candidate mission, a new light on the infrared Earth emission, abstract EGU2019-14304, European Geoscience Union 2019 Congress, 7 — 12 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
  • Luca Palchetti, Christian Lanconelli, Giovanni Bianchini, Gianluca Di Natale, Spectral Characterization of the Surface Longwave Radiation over the East Antarctic Plateau, AIP Conference Proceedings 1810, 100005 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975560
  • L.Palchetti, G.Bianchini, B.Carli, and C.Serio, Ground-based and balloon-borne characterization of the far infrared atmospheric emission spectrum, AIP Conf. Proc. — March 11, 2009 — Volume 1100, pp. 147-150, CURRENT PROBLEMS IN ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION (IRS 2008): Proceedings of the International Radiation Symposium (IRC/IAMAS); Issue Date: 11 March 2009. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3116935
  • Marco Ridolfi, Paolo Dandini, William Cossich, Samuele Del Bianco, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Alessio Di Roma, Tiziano Maestri, Luca Palchetti, Iacopo Sbrolli, Estimate of the outgoing far-infrared irradiance with FORUM, Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018-13730, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018, 8 — 13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.
  • Marco Ridolfi, Luca Palchetti, Helen Brindley, Samuele Del Bianco, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Laurent Labonnote, Tiziano Maestri, Roger Sounders, The FORUM EE9 Proposed Mission: Potentiality of Measurements and Synergies with IASI-NG, ATMOS 2018 congress, 26 — 29 November 2018, Salzburg, Austria.
  • Marco Ridolfi, Luca Palchetti, Helen Brindley, Samuele Del Bianco, Bianca Maria Dinelli, Laurent Labonnote, Tiziano Maestri, Roger Saunders, FORUM EE9 Mission: Characterization of Clear-Sky Products and Synergies With IASI-NG, LPS19-1432, ESA Living Planet Symposium, 13 — 17 May 2019, Milan, Italy.
  • Iacopo Sbrolli, Tiziano Maestri, William Cossich, Marco Ridolfi, Paolo Dandini, Luca Palchetti, Gianluca Di Natale, Cloud identification and classification applied to satellite Far InfraRed Observations (FORUM mission), Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 20, EGU2018, 2018, EGU General Assembly 2018, 8 — 13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.