The Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST) project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5659, Issue , 2005, Pages 81-87

  Mlynczak, M G ^a   Johnson, D G ^a   Bingham, G E ^b   Jucks, K W ^c   Traub, W A ^c   Gordley, L ^d   Yang, P ^e  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d G and A Technical Software Inc   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beamsplitters; Climate Change; Far Infrared; Fourier Transform Spectrometer; FTS

Indexed keywords

BEAMSPLITTERS; FAR-INFRARED; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS (FTS); INTEGRAL CONSTRAINTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; VAPORS;

TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 20344390767     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.579063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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