Abstract
The design, construction, and performance of a combined solar telescope and Michelson interferometer for balloon-borne stratospheric far-IR absorption studies is discussed in terms of the relevant parameters and precautions necessary to obtain high resolution radiometrically calibrated spectra of the stratosphere between 20 and 100 cm−1. Preliminary data are presented to indicate that the system performed as designed and provided constituent concentration values for H2O and O3 from measurements of strong absorption lines in this spectrum.
© 1981 Optical Society of America
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