The Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment (SOFIE): In-Orbit Performance and Initial Results

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007agufmsa14a..03g&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2007, abstract #SA14A-03

Physics

3360 Remote Sensing

Scientific paper

The SOFIE instrument was launched on-board the AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite on April 25, 2007. SOFIE provides measurements for the study of Polar Mesospheric Clouds (PMCs) that appear near 83km, just below the high latitude summer mesopause. The instrument has now operated nominally through the first northern hemisphere PMC season. SOFIE is designed to measure broadband transmission to extremely high precision (<10e-5), to obtain relative tangent altitude knowledge to high precision (sample spacing error ~ 1 meter), and to measure refraction bending angles to unprecedented accuracy (~ 0.1 arc second). Initial success in achieving these measurements and converting them to profiles of temperature, pressure, water vapor, ozone, methane, nitric oxide, carbon dioxide and ice extinction will be presented.

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