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Infrared Spectroscopy in the Atmosphere

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Spectroscopy from Space

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((NAII,volume 20))

Abstract

Remote sensing techniques are widely used to probe the terrestrial atmosphere and retrieve P, T profiles as well as concentration profiles of a number of atmospheric constituents. These techniques cover the whole spectral range from the microwave to the visible-UV but is it worth noticing that the infrared domain is particularly suited to retrieve the concentration profiles of a large number of species in the atmosphere since almost all the atmospheric species exhibit strong fundamental vibration-rotation bands in the infrared spectral domain. The remote sensing techniques working in the infrared are numerous using various instruments with different resolutions (radiometers, spectrometers, Fourier transform interferometers, diode laser spectrometers, …) and performing measurements from different platforms (ground, aircraft, balloons, satellites) with different viewing geometries (limb, nadir, …). However in all cases a precise knowledge of the spectral parameters (line positions, intensities, widths, …) is required for an accurate retrieval of the atmospheric profiles and this is true, not only for the species of interest, but also for the interfering species (i.e. species absorbing in the same spectral interval as the species of interest). Moreover it is worth noticing that, given the recent progress in the atmospheric instruments (better resolution, better signal/noise ratio, …), the spectral parameters need to be of better and better quality. For the spectroscopic point of view, this represents a significant amount of work which needs in order to be performed properly to combine in the laboratory modern experimental techniques and theoretical methods.

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  1. Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 210, 91405, ORSAY Cedex, France

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  1. CNRS, Université de Lille I, Lille, France

    Jean Demaison

  2. Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Kamil Sarka

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

    Edward A. Cohen

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Flaud, JM. (2001). Infrared Spectroscopy in the Atmosphere. In: Demaison, J., Sarka, K., Cohen, E.A. (eds) Spectroscopy from Space. NATO Science Series, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0832-7_12

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