Abstract

In May 1989 the first balloon flight of the MIPAS (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding) instrument took place from Aire-sur-l'Adour (France). A ballon launched by CNES carried the payload to an average altitude of about 33 km. After reaching the floating altitude, a lot of stratospheric and tropospheric limb emission spectra were taken during the night from May 17 to May 18, 1989. A description of the intrument, experimental details and data preprocessing can be found elsewhere (Fischer et al. 1990; Oelhaf et al. 1991). Though the first flight was planned to be only a technological experiment, it produced a lot of spectra of scientific value.

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