Title :
Terahertz Limb Sounder to measure winds and temperature above 100 km
Author :
Erich Schlecht;Jose Siles;Jeanne Treuttel;Robert Lin;Jeng-Hwa Yee;Dong Wu;Bertrand Thomas;Imran Mehdi
Author_Institution :
Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91109 USA
Abstract :
We describe a new instrument, the Terahertz Limb Sounder (TLS) designed to measure upper atmospheric winds and temperature in the altitude regime between 100 and 150 km. It is based on Doppler measurements of the line of neutral atomic oxygen, OI, at 2.06 THz. This measurement takes advantage of a Schottky diode based all solid state receiver.
Keywords :
"Mixers","Receivers","Temperature measurement","Schottky diodes","Atmospheric measurements","Extraterrestrial measurements","Instruments"
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2035
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327548
