Atmospheric trace species measurements by ILAS and RIS

Author

Sasano, Yasuhiro ; Sugimoto, Nobuo

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. for Environ. Studies, Ibaraki, Japan

Volume

4

fYear

1997

fDate

3-8 Aug 1997

Firstpage

2078

Abstract

The Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS) launched on board the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) in August 1996 has been normally working and acquiring data with the solar occultation method for the stratospheric ozone layer in the northern and southern high latitude regions. The data from ILAS is processed to derive profiles of ozone and other gas species as well as profiles of temperature and aerosol information, archived at ILAS & RIS Data Handling Facility (ILAS & RIS DHF) at National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and distributed to science communities. The Retroreflector in Space (RIS) on board the ADEOS is a corner cube mirror with an effective diameter of about 50 cm, which is used for Earth-satellite long path laser absorption measurements of atmospheric gas species concentration. Brief introduction of the ILAS and RIS and some preliminary results of the measurements are presented

Keywords

air pollution measurement; artificial satellites; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; meteorological instruments; remote sensing; ADEOS; Advanced Earth Observing Satellite; ILAS; Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer; O₃; RIS; Retroreflector in Space; aerosol; air pollution; atmosphere; chemical composition; corner cube mirror; equipment; infrared; instrument; laser absorption measurement; measurement technique; meteorology; optical method; ozone layer; satellite remote sensing; solar occultation method; temperature; trace species; visible; Aerosols; Atmospheric measurements; Data handling; Earth; Gas lasers; Laser theory; Mirrors; Satellites; Spectroscopy; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3836-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.1997.609230

Filename

609230