Abstract

For the first time solar and lunar IR absorption measurements have been performed by means of an FT-IR spectrometer on a lengthy ship cruise. These measurements were performed in May and June 1994 on board the German research vessel <i>Polarstern</i> between Cape Town (33°S) and Bremerhaven (53°N). Spectral analysis of the obtained spectra allowed retrieval of the total zenith columns of a number of trace gases in the atmosphere and study of the latitudinal dependence of the column densities of these trace gases.

Off-axis measurements of atmospheric trace gases by use of an airborne ultraviolet-visible spectrometer

Andrea Petritoli, Fabrizio Ravegnani, Giorgio Giovanelli, Daniele Bortoli, Ubaldo Bonafè, Ivan Kostadinov, and Alexey Oulanovsky
Appl. Opt. 41(27) 5593-5599 (2002)

Application of a radiometric calibration method to lunar Fourier transform IR spectra by using a liquid-nitrogen-cooled high-emissivity blackbody

Jürgen Schreiber, Thomas Blumenstock, and Frank Hase
Appl. Opt. 36(31) 8168-8172 (1997)

Mid-infrared measurements of the atmospheric emission over the South Pole using a radiometrically calibrated Fourier transform spectrometer

Renate Van Allen, Frank J. Murcray, and Xu Liu
Appl. Opt. 35(9) 1523-1530 (1996)

Infrared spectroscopic measurements of tropospheric trace gases

Curtis P. Rinsland and Aaron Goldman
Appl. Opt. 31(33) 6969-6971 (1992)

Solar absorption measurements of stratospheric OH in the UV with a Fourier-transform spectrometer

Justus Notholt, Hauke Schütt, and Axel Keens
Appl. Opt. 36(24) 6076-6082 (1997)