Spectral imaging of the atmosphere / Gordon G. Shepherd.
Series: International geophysics series ; v. 82.©2002Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780080517513
- 008051751X
- 9780126394818
- 0126394814
- 1281028894
- 9781281028891
- QC912.3 .S48 2002eb

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-296) and indexes.
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Optical instruments are routinely employed to obtain a wealth of information about the atmosphere, including its composition, temperature, and winds. A bewildering variety of optical instruments have been proposed over the years, making it difficult to decide which instrument should be chosen to make a specific measurement. Spectral Imaging of the Atmosphere traces the historical development of both spectral and imaging methods and places them in a unified framework relevant to observations of the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. The underlying concepts of various measur.
Observing atmospheric radiation -- Spectral concepts -- Instrument responsivity and superiority -- Imaging concepts -- The Fabry-Perot spectrometer -- The Michelson interferometer -- Multiplexers and modulators -- Doppler-Michelson interferometry -- Operational atmospheric spectral imagers -- Future atmospheric spectral imagers -- Grating spectrometers as spectral imagers.
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