Mesospheric water vapor sounding using earth-limb pure-rotational emission in the LWIR

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993georl..20.1551a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 20, no. 15, p. 1551-1554.

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Atmospheric Composition, Atmospheric Sounding, Mesosphere, Remote Sensing, Water Vapor, Accuracy, Emission Spectra, Infrared Radiometers, Rotational Spectra

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Limb sounding of mesospheric water vapor using pure rotational emission in the long-wavelength IR region has been demonstrated using data from the ELC-1 rocket experiment, launched in October, 1983. By simultaneously analyzing H2O emission at 23-29 microns and CO2 emission in the nu2 band region, effects due to uncertainties in the atmospheric temperature and instrument calibration are minimized. The H2O profile obtained from ELC-1 is consistent with other fall to early-winter measurements. Given accurate line-of-sight pointing information, this approach will be feasible for global mesospheric H2O sounding from limb-viewing satellites.

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