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Attachment A: Specifications of Spaceborne Instruments Capable of Measuring CO2
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... @ 2.04-208 @ 1.92-2.08 3.7-13.6 µm, 4.5 µm µm ~800 @ 13.6 15.4 µm Orbit altitude 705 km 666 km 790 km 705 km 820 km Local time 13:30 ± 0:1.5 13:00 ± 0:15 10:00 13:30 21:30 Revisit 16 days/233 3 days/72 35 days 16 days/233 72 days/1,037 time/orbits orbits orbits orbits orbits Launch date failed on January 2009 March 2002 May 2002 October 2006 launch Nominal life 2 years 5 years 7+ years 7+ years 5 years NOTES: AIRS = Atmospheric Infrared Sounder; CAI = Cloud and Aerosol Imager; FTS = Fourier transform spectrometer; GOSAT = Greenhouse gas Observing Satellite; IASI = Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer; OCO = Orbiting Carbon Observatory; SCIAMACHY = Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography; SWIR = short-wavelength infrared; TIR = thermal infrared. a Crisp, D., C.E.
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... Heimann, 2005, Carbon monoxide, methane and carbon dioxide columns retrieved from SCIAMACHY by WFM-DOAS: Year 2003 initial data set, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 5, 3313-3329. d Aumann, H.H., M.T.
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Key Terms

  • orbiting carbon
  • atmospheric chemistry
  • geophysical research
  • atmospheric chartography
  • oco instrument

  • absorption spectrometer
  • fourier transform
  • carbon observatory
  • transform spectrometer
  • imaging absorption

  • instrument performance
  • infrared atmospheric
  • atmospheric infrared
  • ancillary atmospheric
  • nasa orbiting

  • carbon monoxide
  • oco retrieval
  • infrared observations
  • orbits launch
  • column averaged

  • dioxide column
  • atmospheric sounding
  • fourier grating
  • spectrometer spectrometer
  • dioxide mole

  • dedicated carbon
  • thermal infrared
  • averaged carbon
  • hyperspectral infrared
  • oco validation


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