EOS MOPITT experiment: Extracting the information from the measurements

John Gille, James Drummond, Jinxue Wang, David Edwards, Merritt Deeter, Boris Khattatov, Jean Francois Lamarque, Juying Warner, Daniel Ziskin

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Abstract

This paper will serve as an overview of the challenges to the recovery of information on atmospheric CO and CH4 from the measurements made by the MOPITT instrument that has been described by Drummond et al. It will also provide a context and introduction to several of the following papers that go into greater detail on particular topics, and outline plans for the data processing. Here we briefly outline the principles of correlation radiometry as used by MOPITT, and introduce the principles behind the retrievals. After noting plans for data processing, we discuss our approach to data validation, and the ability to see global distributions of CO in the MOPITT data.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)403-408
Number of pages6
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume3756
DOIs
StatePublished - 1999
EventProceedings of the 1999 Optical Spectroscopic Techniques and Instrumentation for Atmospheric and Space Research III - Denver, CO, USA
Duration: Jul 19 1999Jul 21 1999

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