Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group

Balloon Remote Sensing of Atmospheric gases by FTIR solar absorption spectrometry

Not Accessible

Your library or personal account may give you access

Abstract

Remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere by viewing the limb provides a high sensitivity to trace gases because of the very long path lengths that are attainable. This makes the results insensitive to local contamination or wall effects which can cause significant systematic errors in in-situ sampling methods. The spatial resolution is, however, much poorer: Typically, the bulk of the absorbing gas along a limb path will be spread over a volume measuring 350 km horizontally and 2 km vertically.

© 1997 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
A New Balloon-Borne Fourier Transform Instrument for Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Trace Species

Claude Camy-Peyret and Jean-Marie Flaud
FTuD.1 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 1997

Remotely Operating a Fourier Transform Spectrometer for Atmospheric Remote Sensing

J.-F. Blavier, G. C. Toon, and B. Sen
FWE20 Fourier Transform Spectroscopy (FTS) 1999

IR Balloon-Borne Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Species

David G. Murcray, Aaron Goldman, John J. Kosters, Frank H. Murcray, and Frank J. Murcray
TuA1 Optical Techniques for Remote Probing of the Atmosphere (RPA) 1983

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved