The invention discloses an
infrared cloud height inversion method based on multiple optical thickness sets and residual weighting, and the method comprises the steps: generating a
simulation curve set changing with
zenith angles in advance through a
radiation transmission mode under a preset
atmosphere profile condition, and carrying out the interpolation of a curve to a
zenith angle matrix corresponding to an instrument view field, so as to construct a multi-dimensional
radiation lookup table; interpolating the multi-dimensional
radiation lookup table according to the total content of the
atmospheric water vapor at the
current time to generate a
cloud height-radiation relation sub-table; for each cloud pixel, a
cloud height candidate value of the cloud pixel exists under each optical thickness grade, a residual error between actually measured radiation corresponding to the cloud height candidate value and the cloud height-radiation
simulation curve is calculated, an optical thickness residual error of each grade is obtained, an optical thickness weight is constructed, the multiple cloud height candidate values are subjected to weighted fusion, and a cloud height-radiation
simulation curve is obtained; and obtaining a cloud height inversion result with cloud pixels. The influence of optical thickness uncertainty on cloud height inversion can be weakened through a multi-light-thickness set and a residual weight mechanism, and the cloud height inversion precision and stability are improved.