Broadband acoustooptic spectrometer used as backend for remote sensing of trace gases in the atmosphere

Author

Jost, Hansjurg ; Kampfer, Niklaus ; Lecacheux, Alain ; Rosolen, Carlo

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Angewandte Phys., Bern Univ., Switzerland

Volume

34

Issue

4

fYear

1996

fDate

7/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

927

Lastpage

935

Abstract

A broad-band acoustooptical spectrometer was used as a backend of a millimeter wave heterodyne receiver to detect the rotational transition of ozone at 142.175 GHz. The AOS has a total bandwidth of 1.07 GHz covered with 1728 channels with 1.2 MHz resolution bandwidth each. The influence of the instrumental filter characteristic, linearity in power, stability in power and frequency, to the measurements and subsequent retrieval of atmospheric ozone profiles have been analyzed. Estimation of a linear slope and an offset brightness temperature has been included in the inversion process using the optimal estimation method

Keywords

air pollution measurement; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; atmospheric techniques; meteorological instruments; millimetre wave spectroscopy; remote sensing; 142.175 GHz; EHF; O₃; air pollution; atmosphere; broadband acoustooptic spectrometer; chemical composition; inversion; measurement technique; millimeter wave heterodyne receiver; millimetric spectroscopy; mm wave; optimal estimation method; ozone; remote sensing; rotational transition; stratosphere; trace gas; Acoustic signal detection; Bandwidth; Filters; Frequency; Instruments; Linearity; Millimeter wave measurements; Millimeter wave technology; Spectroscopy; Stability analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/36.508409

Filename

508409