The ACE-MAESTRO instrument on SCISAT: Description, performance, and preliminary results

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 4341-4356

  McElroy, C Thomas ^a,b   Nowlan, Caroline R ^b   Drummond, James R ^b,c   Bernath, Peter F ^d,e   Barton, David V ^a   Dufour, Denis G ^b   Midwinter, Clive ^a,b   Hall, Robert B ^a   Ogyu, Akira ^a   Ullberg, Aaron ^a   Wardle, David I ^a   Kar, Jay ^b   Zou, Jason ^b   Nichitiu, Florian ^b   Boone, Chris D ^d   Walker, Kaley A ^b,d   Rowlands, Neil ^f  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^f COM DEV Ltd ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OPTICAL DESIGN; OZONE LAYER; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENT (ACE) MISSIONS; ATMOSPHERIC EXTINCTION; TRACE GASES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 34547724775     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004341     Document Type: Article

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