First light from the Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Troposphere (FIRST) instrument

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Johnson, David G ^a   Latvakoski, Harri ^b   Jucks, Kenneth ^c   Watson, Mike ^b   Kratz, David P ^a   Bingham, Gail ^b   Traub, Wesley A ^d   Wellard, Stanley J ^b   Hyde, Charles R ^a   Liu, Xu ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Strategic and Military Space Division   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VAPORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EMISSION SPECTRUM; FAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FAR-INFRARED WAVENUMBERS; SPECTRAL STRUCTURE; TROPOSPHERE INSTRUMENT;

TROPOSPHERE;

FTIR SPECTROSCOPY; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 33646834954     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025114     Document Type: Article

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