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The final Chap. 10, draws the book together by highlighting the main scientific results and emphasising the scientific needs identified by the authors of the earlier chapters. The need for further interpretation of the data provided by current instruments is indicated, as are the requirements and perspectives for future satellite instruments. Future planned missions are reviewed which, unfortunately, shows that there are likely to be gaps in our coverage of the troposphere. Several possible configurations of satellites, including both low orbital and geostationary orbits, are considered which would yield the required comprehensive coverage of the troposphere in the future. The chapter concludes with some of the encouragements and some of the obstacles, which confront the future tropospheric composition monitoring system that we need.
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Burrows, J.P., Platt, U., Borrell, P. (2011). Conclusions and Perspectives. In: Burrows, J., Borrell, P., Platt, U. (eds) The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14791-3_10
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