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Elsevier, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, (148), p. 18-21, 2014

DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2014.06.016

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ACE infrared spectral atlases of the Earth's atmosphere

Journal article published in 2014 by Ryan Hughes ORCID, Peter Bernath ORCID, Chris Boone
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Abstract

Five infrared atmospheric atlases are presented using solar occultation spectra from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) in low earth orbit. The spectral atlases were created for Arctic summer, Arctic winter, mid-latitude summer, mid-latitude winter and the tropics. Each covers the spectral range from 700 to 4400 cm−1 and consists of 31 spectra that span an altitude range of 6–126 km in 4-km altitude intervals. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio, each spectrum in the atlas is an average of at least several hundred individual ACE-FTS limb transmission spectra. Representative plots in pdf format at 10 km (troposphere), 30 km (stratosphere), 70 km (mesosphere), and 110 km (lower thermosphere) are also available.