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| Title: | Pressure Sounding of the Middle Atmosphere from ATMOS Solar Occultation Measurements of Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> Absorption Lines |
| Authors: | Abrams, M.
Gunson, M.
Lowes, L.
Rinsland, C.
Zander, R. |
| Issue Date: | 1994 |
| Abstract: | A method for retrieving the atmospheric pressure corresponding to the tangent point of an infrared spectrum recorded in the solar occultation mode is described and applied to measurements made by the Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy (ATMOS) Fourier transform spectrometer. Tangent pressure values are inferred from measurements of isolated CO<sub>2</sub> lines with temperature-insensitive intensities. Tangent pressures are determined with a spectroscopic precision of 1-3%, corresponding to a tangent point height precision, depending on the scale height, of 70-210 meters. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2014/33048 |
| Appears in Collections: | JPL TRS 1992+
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