Overview of the EOS aura mission

Author

Schoeberl, Mark R. ; Douglass, Anne R. ; Hilsenrath, Ernest ; Bhartia, Pawan K. ; Beer, Reinhard ; Waters, Joe William ; Gunson, Michael R. ; Froidevaux, Lucien ; Gille, John C. ; Barnett, John J. ; Levelt, Pieternel F. ; DeCola, Phil

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

44

Issue

5

fYear

2006

fDate

5/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1066

Lastpage

1074

Abstract

Aura, the last of the large Earth Observing System observatories, was launched on July 15, 2004. Aura is designed to make comprehensive stratospheric and tropospheric composition measurements from its four instruments, the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS), the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI), and the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES). With the exception of HIRDLS, all of the instruments are performing as expected, and HIRDLS will likely be able to deliver most of their planned data products. We summarize the mission, instruments, and synergies in this paper.

Keywords

aerospace instrumentation; artificial satellites; atmospheric composition; atmospheric measuring apparatus; remote sensing; stratosphere; troposphere; AD 2004 07 15; EOS Aura Mission; Earth Observing System; HIRDLS; High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder; MLS; Microwave Limb Sounder; OMI; Ozone Monitoring Instrument; TES; Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer; artificial satellite; remote sensing; stratospheric composition; tropospheric composition; Atmospheric measurements; Earth Observing System; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Monitoring; Multilevel systems; Observatories; Satellites; Space vehicles; Spectroscopy; Atmospheric composition; Aura; Earth Observing Sytem (EOS); remote sensing; satellites;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0196-2892

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TGRS.2005.861950

Filename

1624588